A Lisp · Cole Goldman

128 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 6% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 53, 55-57 and 59-61 -- 5.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
A LISP · BAR 53
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 1, 4, 5, 8, 12, 13 and 32 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 4-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 12-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 12 sections: 53 keep time, 38 are fills, 20 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 53-63.

PART F
PART H
PART AA
PART AF
PART AN
PART AZ
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesBLAFAAFH+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Lisp?

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is A Lisp hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 4:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 16 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 A Lisp?

18 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 1, 4, 5, 8, 12, 13 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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