Bright Lies · Giant Rooks

83 bars, 4:24, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
88/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 71-75 -- 7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BRIGHT LIES · BARS 71-72
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 13 more.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BARS 1-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BARS 6-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 75 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

83 bars across 5 sections: 48 keep time, 19 are fills and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 72-83.

CHORUS
PART AT
BREAK
OUTRO
5 groovesYBAS3ATS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bright Lies?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Bright Lies hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 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 Bright Lies?

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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