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Lethargy · Lifelover

EXERCISE 24 OF 59
Fill at bar 56 (a small one)
120 / 145 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART I
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
6 groovesAIECR+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lethargy on drums

145 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 3:59 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
3:59
DIFFICULTY
49/100

hi-hat through bars 1-20, snare through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-28, snare through bars 29-32, hi-hat through bars 33-48 and snare through bars 49-64, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-51, 53-55 and 57-59, and 13 more places -- 33.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    113
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x---------|
Lethargy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 8, 20, 28, 32, 48, 52 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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, A -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 23-53 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part S8 -- 10 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 50-101 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Lethargy?

146 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 Lethargy hard to play on drums?

49 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 3:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Lethargy?

19 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 8, 20, 28, 32, 48, 52 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED