Lie To Me · Chris Isaak

122 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 4:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Jazz / BluesPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 97% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-119 -- 96.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 112 BPM
LIE TO ME · BAR 2
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 121 and 122.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BARS 121-122 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars: 120 keep time and 2 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-120.

OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lie To Me?

112 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 Lie To Me hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 18 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Lie To Me?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 121 and 122.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED
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