Lemon Meringue Tie · Dance Gavin Dance

154 bars of 4/4 at 154 BPM, about 4:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / Indie150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
154 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 54-56, 58-60 and 62-64, and 4 more places -- 13.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 154 BPM
LEMON MERINGUE TIE · BAR 54
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 7, 21, 22 and 32 more.

LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 154 BPM
BARS 21-23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

154 bars across 15 sections: 80 keep time, 38 are fills, 18 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-20.

PART B
PART E
PART L
PART P
PART V
CHORUS
PART P
PART AD
PART S
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesZVEPL+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lemon Meringue Tie?

154 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 Meringue Tie hard to play on drums?

57 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 17 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 Lemon Meringue Tie?

17 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 7, 21, 22 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED
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