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Lies · Culture Wars
EXERCISE 13 OF 18
Groove I
55 / 76 BARS COVERED
0 / 18 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lies on drums

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.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
42/100

hi-hat through bars 3-9, silence through bars 10-14, hi-hat through bars 15-58, silence through bars 59-68 and hi-hat through bars 69-76.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Lies -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- B, F -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 20-46 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 3 and the Break 2 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED