Comfortable Liar · Chevelle

82 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieMetal90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-4, 6-9 and 20-23, and 2 more places -- 29.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 90 BPM
COMFORTABLE LIAR · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 5, 19, 39, 65 and 77.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 77 · LANDS ON BAR 78
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 12 sections: 59 keep time, 6 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-31.

CHORUS
PART F
VERSE
PART F
PART K
VERSE 2
PART S9
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBEFKO+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Comfortable Liar?

90 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 Comfortable Liar hard to play on drums?

53 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Comfortable Liar?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 5, 19, 39, 65 and 77.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED
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