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Lebanon · Mortal Sin

Lebanon · Mortal Sin
EXERCISE 6 OF 72
Groove F
50 / 170 BARS COVERED
0 / 72 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART H
CHORUS
PART H
PART R
PART Z
PART AD
OUTRO
17 groovesEZRADAN+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 6
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lebanon on drums

170 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 6:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
6:25
DIFFICULTY
90/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-12, ride through bars 13-55, silence through bars 56-57, toms through bars 58-61 and silence through bars 62-63, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-17, 19-23 and 25, and 7 more places -- 11.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    13
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
RD |----x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Lebanon -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 18, 24, 28, 32, 36, 40 and 33 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- E -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 38-54 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 51-58 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 58-66 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Lebanon?

110 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 Lebanon hard to play on drums?

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 6:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 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 Lebanon?

14 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 18, 24, 28, 32, 36, 40 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED