50 Special · Lunapop

136 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-17, 57-71 and 112-133 -- 41.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 160 BPM
50 SPECIAL · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 28, 29, 30, 53, 54, 55 and 8 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 28-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 53-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 111 · LANDS ON BAR 112

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 15 sections: 99 keep time, 14 are fills, 5 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 113-133.

CHORUS
PART I
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBIKED+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 50 Special?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is 50 Special hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in 50 Special?

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 28, 29, 30, 53, 54, 55 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED
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