Lemon Tree · Fool's Garden

82 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 2:17 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopRock120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
2:17
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 83% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 13-19 and 25-27, and 5 more places -- 83.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 144 BPM
LEMON TREE · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 8 sections: 52 keep time, 1 is a stop and 28 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 57-82.

CHORUS
PART S5
CHORUS 3
BREAK 2
OUTRO
5 groovesBS5S7S1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lemon Tree?

144 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 Tree hard to play on drums?

40 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 2:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 31 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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