Controlling Lies - Demo · WildFire

238 bars at 201 BPM -- fast, and 4:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
201 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
238
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-79, 130-160 and 204-234 -- 39.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 201 BPM
CONTROLLING LIES - DEMO · BAR 54
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 36 and 11 more.

LOOP · 201 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 201 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 201 BPM
BARS 6-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 201 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 11 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

246 bars across 9 sections: 156 keep time, 17 are fills, 52 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 130-166.

PART F
PART I
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO
5 groovesLIFJS9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Controlling Lies - Demo?

201 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Controlling Lies - Demo hard to play on drums?

61 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

238 bars, about 4:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Controlling Lies - Demo?

5 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 36 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 238 BARS ANALYSED
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