Hand Shake for Lucifer · NAILS

170 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-17, 20 and 22-24, and 9 more places -- 20.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
HAND SHAKE FOR LUCIFER · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 9, 25, 35, 51, 52 and 9 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 51-55 · LANDS ON BAR 56 · PLAYED 10 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

170 bars across 17 sections: 74 keep time, 15 are fills, 65 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-24.

PART A
PART F
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART L
OUTRO
7 groovesHFLEA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hand Shake for Lucifer?

180 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 Hand Shake for Lucifer hard to play on drums?

64 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 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 Hand Shake for Lucifer?

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 9, 25, 35, 51, 52 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED
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