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I Am The Lion · Phinehas

EXERCISE 22 OF 86
Fill at bar 28, 36, 70 and 109 (a small one)
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0 / 86 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
PART E
CHORUS
PART N
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART AD
CHORUS 3
PART AD
OUTRO 2
8 groovesJADALNS+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 24
LAND · 24
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 9
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Am The Lion on drums

171 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 5:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
5:01
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-8, snare through bars 9-39, hi-hat through bars 40-47, toms through bars 48-49 and snare through bars 50-57, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 33, and 11 more places -- 14% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x---x---x---x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
I Am The Lion -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

24 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 4, 7, 8, 16, 28, 32 and 53 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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 -- J, AL -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AD -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-27 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and Part S -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is I Am The Lion?

135 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is I Am The Lion hard to play on drums?

55 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 5:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 15 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 I Am The Lion?

24 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 4, 7, 8, 16, 28, 32 and 53 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED