Lights And Sounds · Yellowcard

142 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 3:23 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 35 and 37-39, and 20 more places -- 46.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 168 BPM
LIGHTS AND SOUNDS · BAR 37
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 34, 42, 50, 66, 67, 68 and 7 more.

LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51
LOOP · 168 BPM
BARS 66-70 · LANDS ON BAR 71 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

142 bars across 15 sections: 101 keep time, 13 are fills, 1 is a stop and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 127-141.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
BREAK 2
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCDBQS10+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lights And Sounds?

168 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Lights And Sounds hard to play on drums?

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Lights And Sounds?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 34, 42, 50, 66, 67, 68 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED
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