Illuminate · Leprous

94 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 133 BPM, 4:14 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Progressive120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-13 -- 23.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 133 BPM
ILLUMINATE · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 25 and 33.

LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

94 bars across 7 sections: 44 keep time, 2 are fills, 2 are stops and 39 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-13.

PART A
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART K
OUTRO
BREAK
6 groovesS7GAKB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Illuminate?

133 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Illuminate hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Illuminate?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 25 and 33.

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