Emerald · Thin Lizzy

236 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 181 BPM, 3:56 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
181 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
236
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 141-147, 149-155 and 157-161, and 9 more places -- 27.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 181 BPM
EMERALD · BAR 142
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 20, 24, 32, 35, 36, 37 and 35 more.

LOOP · 181 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 181 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 181 BPM
BARS 35-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 181 BPM
BARS 69-70 · LANDS ON BAR 71 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

236 bars across 12 sections: 165 keep time, 41 are fills, 2 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-19.

PART A
PART C
PART J
PART K
PART J
PART M
BREAK
CHORUS
9 groovesSJKCA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Emerald?

181 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Emerald hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

236 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 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 Emerald?

16 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 20, 24, 32, 35, 36, 37 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 236 BARS ANALYSED
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