Light-Thunder-Light · Saber Tiger

149 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 7, and 21 more places -- 21.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 145 BPM
LIGHT-THUNDER-LIGHT · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 18, 24, 26 and 27 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

149 bars across 14 sections: 97 keep time, 33 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 86-93.

CHORUS
PART C
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART W
PART C
OUTRO
6 groovesFCEDW+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Light-Thunder-Light?

145 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 Light-Thunder-Light hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 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 Light-Thunder-Light?

19 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 18, 24, 26 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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