Lay Down · Priestess

94 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 3:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 17 more places -- 38.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 122 BPM
LAY DOWN · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 27, 36, 40, 63, 67 and 4 more.

LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

94 bars across 5 sections: 42 keep time, 11 are fills and 36 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-50.

PART D
CHORUS
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBDPFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lay Down?

122 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 Lay Down hard to play on drums?

58 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Lay Down?

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 27, 36, 40, 63, 67 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED
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