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Lift Me Up · Five Finger Death Punch

EXERCISE 1 OF 71
Groove N -- Chorus
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PART B
PART E
PART B
PART K
CHORUS
PART B
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART AC
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesNBKACEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lift Me Up on drums

146 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
61/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-17, hi-hat through bars 18-41, snare through bars 42-47, toms through bars 48-49 and snare through bars 50-55, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42-47, 50-55 and 86-91, and 6 more places -- 24% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    42
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Lift Me Up -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

21 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 9, 13, 25, 29, 33, 37 and 33 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- N -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B, K -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 10-42 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part E -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-62 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 59-89 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part AC -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Lift Me Up?

150 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 Lift Me Up hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Lift Me Up?

21 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 9, 13, 25, 29, 33, 37 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED