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"Big Lie" · Joyce Manor

EXERCISE 1 OF 23
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBELFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play "Big Lie" on drums

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

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
2:35
DIFFICULTY
49/100

hi-hat through bars 1-45, snare through bars 46-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-78.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
"Big Lie" -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- B, E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED