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Liar · Korn

EXERCISE 8 OF 27
Groove B
53 / 88 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART J
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesAHJS2S5+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Liar on drums

88 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
82/100

hi-hat through bars 1-17, silence through bars 18-28, hi-hat through bars 29-41, silence through bars 42-52, hi-hat through bars 53-61 and silence through bars 62-72, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 11 more places -- 22.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    1
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----g---x---g---x---g---x---g---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-x---x---x-----x-x-------x-----|
Liar -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 32, 56, 60, 76, 80 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part S2 -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 39-61 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Liar?

115 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Liar hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 9 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Liar?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 32, 56, 60, 76, 80 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED