Lemon · Kenshi Yonezu

90 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 4:06 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Under 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-18, 24-26 and 28-30, and 5 more places -- 49.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 87 BPM
LEMON · BAR 24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 58, 85 and 87.

LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 10 sections: 57 keep time, 3 are fills, 2 are stops and 23 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-32.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART G
BREAK 2
OUTRO
7 groovesBECS1S9+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lemon?

87 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 Lemon hard to play on drums?

43 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Lemon?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 58, 85 and 87.

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