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Hand Shake for Lucifer · NAILS

EXERCISE 3 OF 35
Groove J
59 / 170 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT
PART A
PART F
CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hand Shake for Lucifer on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
64/100

hi-hat through bars 1-13, snare through bars 14-17, hi-hat through bars 18-21, snare through bars 22-35, hi-hat through bars 36-39 and snare through bars 40-43, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Hand Shake for Lucifer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- F, E -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 1-14 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Bars 35-124 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Bars 51-73 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 79-143 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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