Lazarus · Porcupine Tree

63 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 3:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
29/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 98% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-44 and 53-62 -- 98% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 84 BPM
LAZARUS · BAR 8
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

63 bars across 4 sections: 50 keep time, 1 is a stop and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-44.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
3 groovesBS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lazarus?

84 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 Lazarus hard to play on drums?

29 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

63 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 17 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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