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Lights Out · Orchid

EXERCISE 10 OF 26
Fill at bar 25 (a small one)
31 / 73 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART G
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART G
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCGMS1YFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lights Out on drums

73 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 2:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
2:31
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-17, hi-hat through bars 18-25, snare through bars 26-33, hi-hat through bars 34-38 and snare through bars 39-64, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 6 more places -- 23.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    12
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----g-----x-----g-----x-----g-----|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------x-----x-----------x-----x-----x-----|
Lights Out -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 13, 25, 52 and 56.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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, G -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 44-70 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Lights Out?

104 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Out hard to play on drums?

61 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 2:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 13, 25, 52 and 56.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED