Harper Lewis · Russian Circles

256 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 5:58 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Progressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
256
LENGTH
5:58
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 24 more places -- 10.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 172 BPM
HARPER LEWIS · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

24 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 40, 88, 124 and 26 more.

LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89

20 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

256 bars across 15 sections: 191 keep time, 32 are fills, 14 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 63-87.

PART B
CHORUS
PART I
PART O
PART T
PART AD
PART L
PART AS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesCIASBBL+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Harper Lewis?

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

Is Harper Lewis hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

256 bars, about 5:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 82 exercises over 26 sittings, about 25 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 Harper Lewis?

24 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 40, 88, 124 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 256 BARS ANALYSED
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