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Last Light · Bury Tomorrow

EXERCISE 34 OF 44
Fill at bar 68 (a small one)
100 / 110 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART L
CHORUS
PART F
PART H
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART L
OUTRO
7 groovesALAAFH+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Last Light on drums

110 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
57/100

snare through bars 1-14, toms through bars 15-17, hi-hat through bars 18-24, snare through bars 25-58, toms through bars 59-60 and snare through bars 61-76, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-41, 43-44 and 61-67, and 2 more places -- 24.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Last Light -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 8, 15, 16, 24, 32, 42 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- L, A -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part L -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 41-81 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 68-85 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Last Light?

120 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 Last Light hard to play on drums?

57 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Last Light?

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 8, 15, 16, 24, 32, 42 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED