Lights Out · Mindless Self Indulgence

160 bars at 242 BPM -- fast, and 2:39 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ElectronicMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
242 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
2:39
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-38, 61-74 and 78, and 4 more places -- 32.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 242 BPM
LIGHTS OUT · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 24, 60, 117 and 118.

LOOP · 242 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 242 BPM
BARS 117-118 · LANDS ON BAR 119 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

160 bars across 14 sections: 114 keep time, 4 are fills, 13 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 93-109.

PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART O
PART S11
PART R
OUTRO
10 groovesHDLAO+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lights Out?

242 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 Out hard to play on drums?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 9 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 2:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Lights Out?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 24, 60, 117 and 118.

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