Lady Fantasy · Camel

502 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 15:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockProgressive120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
502
LENGTH
15:55
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 134-148, 150 and 152, and 7 more places -- 8.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
LADY FANTASY · BARS 134-135
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

28 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 45 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 4-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 23-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

24 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

502 bars across 44 sections: 330 keep time, 51 are fills, 32 are stops and 36 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 370-391.

CHORUS
PART CL
PART CK
PART CT
33 groovesAZPCKCLCT+28Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lady Fantasy?

125 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Lady Fantasy 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

502 bars, about 15:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 157 exercises over 48 sittings, about 26 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 Lady Fantasy?

28 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 45 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 502 BARS ANALYSED
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