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Liar · Queen

EXERCISE 1 OF 75
Groove AA -- Part AA
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PART A
PART I
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AA
PART AE
PART AF
PART AA
PART AA
14 groovesAAOIAFX+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 4
JOIN · 17
LINK · 7
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Liar on drums

176 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 8:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
8:13
DIFFICULTY
70/100

hi-hat through bars 1-2, toms through bars 3-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, toms through bars 17-18, hi-hat through bars 19-26 and toms through bars 27-29, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 86-99, 134 and 136-137, and 2 more places -- 14% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    86
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x-----g---------x-----g-|
BD |x---x-----------x---x-----------|
Liar -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 24 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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 -- AA -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AF -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through Part I -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 9-29 -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Liar?

85 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?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 8:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 21 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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?

10 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED