Lightning Crashes · Live

71 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 3:28 of playing, on ride, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-25, 27 and 43-70 -- 53.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 82 BPM
LIGHTNING CRASHES · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

71 bars across 5 sections: 62 keep time and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 44-71.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesECDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lightning Crashes?

82 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 Lightning Crashes hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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