"Big Lie" · Joyce Manor

78 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:35 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
2:35
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-16 and 18-20, and 3 more places -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
"BIG LIE" · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 21, 38, 46, 53, 54 and 62.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 53-54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

78 bars across 6 sections: 66 keep time and 6 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-20.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBELFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is "Big Lie"?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 "Big 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 2:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in "Big Lie"?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 21, 38, 46, 53, 54 and 62.

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