Lateralus · Tool

263 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 86 BPM, 9:15 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockProgressiveUnder 90 BPMShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
263
LENGTH
9:15
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 44-59 and 86-101 -- 12.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 86 BPM
LATERALUS · BARS 44-45
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 35, 37, 41, 75, 76, 77 and 45 more.

LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

263 bars across 22 sections: 157 keep time, 51 are fills, 22 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-34.

PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART AL
PART AM
PART BP
19 groovesIBAMBPU+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lateralus?

86 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Lateralus hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

263 bars, about 9:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 80 exercises over 27 sittings, about 27 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 Lateralus?

19 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 35, 37, 41, 75, 76, 77 and 45 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 263 BARS ANALYSED
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