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Comfortable Liar · Chevelle

EXERCISE 15 OF 36
Join Verse to Part F (bars 30-32)
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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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Comfortable Liar on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 1-60, silence through bars 61-64, hi-hat through bars 65-77 and snare through bars 78-82.

The beat

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.

    2                3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|------------x---|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-----|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x------x|x-------x-x-----|
Comfortable Liar -- 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 1, 5, 19, 39, 65 and 77.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, F -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 8-27 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 28-43 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 40-55 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Bars 58-74 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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