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Bright Lies · Giant Rooks

Bright Lies · Giant Rooks
EXERCISE 16 OF 27
3-bar fill at bar 37 and 1 more
27 / 83 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART AT
BREAK
OUTRO
5 groovesYBAS3ATS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bright Lies on drums

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.

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
88/100

ride through bars 1-25, toms through bars 26-27, ride through bars 28-48, toms through bars 49-56, silence through bars 57-68 and hi-hat through bars 69-77, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    71                               72
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |--x---x---x---x---x---x---x-----|--x---x---x---x---x---x---o---x-|
SD |----x-------x-------x--g---xxxx-|----x-------x-------x--g----x---|
BD |x--x----x--x----x--x------------|x--x----x--x----x--x----x-------|
HF |--------------------------------|----------------------------x---|
Bright Lies -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- BA -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AS, AT -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-57 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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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