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Lights And Sounds · Yellowcard

EXERCISE 7 OF 43
Run B1 · Part B (bars 5-8)
97 / 142 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lights And Sounds on drums

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.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-16, silence through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-34, snare through bars 35-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-70, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    37
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Lights And Sounds -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-30 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 27-51 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 47-71 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 59-99 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 97-111 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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