Lights · Journey

54 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 104 BPM, 3:07 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
54
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
29/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 61% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-10, 13-19 and 29-35 -- 60.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 104 BPM
LIGHTS · BAR 5
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 20 and 26.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

54 bars across 5 sections: 28 keep time, 2 are fills and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-19.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
OUTRO
BREAK
4 groovesCS5FS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lights?

104 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Lights hard to play on drums?

29 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

54 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 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 Lights?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 20 and 26.

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