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Lemon Meringue Tie · Dance Gavin Dance

EXERCISE 7 OF 81
Groove E -- Part E (a two-bar phrase)
25 / 154 BARS COVERED
0 / 81 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
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
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 7
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lemon Meringue Tie on drums

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.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
154 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
57/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-20, snare through bars 21-25, hi-hat through bars 26-33, kick and crashes through bars 34-36 and snare through bars 37-41, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    54
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x--x|
BD |x-x---x---x-----|
Lemon Meringue Tie -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 63 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 -- V -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, Z -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 22-42 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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