Lies · Culture Wars

76 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 52% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9, 23-28 and 44-49, and 6 more places -- 51.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 90 BPM
LIES · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 50, 52, 56 and 76.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

76 bars across 9 sections: 52 keep time, 4 are fills and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-41.

CHORUS
BREAK
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
BREAK 2
OUTRO
6 groovesBFDS8S3+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lies?

90 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 Lies hard to play on drums?

42 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Lies?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 50, 52, 56 and 76.

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