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Lethargica · Meshuggah

EXERCISE 11 OF 62
Fill at bar 1 and 8 (a small one)
46 / 153 BARS COVERED
0 / 62 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART A
PART B
PART A
CHORUS
PART I
PART S5
PART AJ
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
9 groovesNS5IAWAJ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lethargica on drums

153 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 5:50 of playing, on crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
5:50
DIFFICULTY
54/100

snare through bars 1-40, toms through bars 41-48, snare through bars 49-57, silence through bars 58-80 and snare through bars 81-153.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 20 and 28, and 7 more places -- 7.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |X---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x--xx---x-x--xx-|
Lethargica -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 99 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 93 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- I -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AT -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AV -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part A -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part B and Part A -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 18-49 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Lethargica?

105 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 Lethargica hard to play on drums?

54 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 5:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Lethargica?

14 fills to learn, played 99 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 93 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED