Levitating (Royal Albert Hall Performance) · Dua Lipa

109 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 4:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27, 29-35 and 37-39, and 17 more places -- 45.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 104 BPM
LEVITATING (ROYAL ALBERT HALL PERFORMANCE) · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 46, 49, 73, 107 and 109.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 107 · LANDS ON BAR 108

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 9 sections: 91 keep time, 5 are fills, 4 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-70.

PART B
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART B
OUTRO
6 groovesDBES8S3+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Levitating (Royal Albert Hall Performance)?

104 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 Levitating (Royal Albert Hall Performance) hard to play on drums?

52 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?

109 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Levitating (Royal Albert Hall Performance)?

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 46, 49, 73, 107 and 109.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
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