lbddblt4dd · lbddbl

232 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 5:37 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
232
LENGTH
5:37
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 18-24, and 15 more places -- 34.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 165 BPM
LBDDBLT4DD · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 25, 32, 33 and 40 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

232 bars across 18 sections: 133 keep time, 46 are fills, 32 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 82-88.

CHORUS 2
PART K
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART K
CHORUS 5
PART K
6 groovesBKOAP+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is lbddblt4dd?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is lbddblt4dd hard to play on drums?

52 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

232 bars, about 5:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 lbddblt4dd?

11 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 25, 32, 33 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 232 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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