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Light-Thunder-Light · Saber Tiger

Light-Thunder-Light · Saber Tiger
EXERCISE 20 OF 74
Join Chorus to Part C (bars 21-23)
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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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 1
JOIN · 12
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Light-Thunder-Light on drums

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.

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
83/100

snare through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-84, ride through bars 85-94 and hi-hat through bars 95-149.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x----x-x-x---x-x|
Light-Thunder-Light -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- C -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 19-36 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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