Lights Out · Royal Blood

176 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:55 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockAlternative / Indie150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-18, 21 and 23, and 15 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.

LOOP · 180 BPM
LIGHTS OUT · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 19, 71, 112, 113, 114, 115 and 4 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 71 · LANDS ON BAR 72
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 112-115 · LANDS ON BAR 116 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 131 · LANDS ON BAR 132 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

176 bars across 10 sections: 105 keep time, 10 are fills, 50 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-18.

PART B
CHORUS
PART I
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFBIAT+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lights Out?

180 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?

52 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 19, 71, 112, 113, 114, 115 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED
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