Lessons · Desolated

80 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:00 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
2:00
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 9 more places -- 17.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
LESSONS · BAR 51
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 8, 14, 16 and 21 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

80 bars across 9 sections: 26 keep time, 27 are fills and 18 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 71-75.

PART B
CHORUS
PART H
PART B
PART E
PART B
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDBEABHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lessons?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Lessons hard to play on drums?

46 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 2:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Lessons?

16 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 8, 14, 16 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED
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