Lady In Red · Chris De Burgh

79 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 4:09 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO

76 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

79

LENGTH

4:09

DIFFICULTY

67/100

hi-hat through bars 1-2, ride through bars 3-55, hi-hat through bars 56-60, ride through bars 61-74 and hi-hat through bars 75-79.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12, 14 and 18, and 15 more places -- 44.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    12
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
RD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
HH |------------x-----------------x-----x-----------|
SD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
BD |x-----------------x-----x--------------------x--|

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
3. Through the Outro 2 -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
4. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
5. Bars 6-56 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
6. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
7. Bars 53-79 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.