A Beautiful Lie · 30 Seconds to Mars

152 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:48 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieProgressive150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-31, 33-40 and 57-63, and 3 more places -- 28.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 160 BPM
A BEAUTIFUL LIE · BARS 25-26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 72.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

152 bars across 12 sections: 137 keep time, 1 is a fill and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-71.

PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesGDANS10+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Beautiful Lie?

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 A Beautiful Lie hard to play on drums?

49 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 A Beautiful Lie?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 72.

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