Light · Periphery

84 bars, 4:36, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 38-39, 42-43 and 76-77, and 1 more place -- 10.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 72 BPM
LIGHT · BARS 38-39
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 7, 13, 17, 21, 25, 26 and 15 more.

LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 15 sections: 44 keep time, 21 are fills, 1 is a stop and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-37.

PART C
PART H
PART K
PART R
CHORUS
PART AB
PART AG
OUTRO 2
13 groovesTKAGAKC+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Light?

72 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Light hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Light?

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 7, 13, 17, 21, 25, 26 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED
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