Lights Out · Spite

120 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 3:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 32-33, 36-37 and 40, and 5 more places -- 10.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 132 BPM
LIGHTS OUT · BARS 32-33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 24, 25, 26 and 30 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 24-31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 16 sections: 55 keep time, 36 are fills, 6 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 61-66.

PART D
PART G
PART S4
CHORUS
PART AC
PART AQ
PART AM
PART N
OUTRO
14 groovesOAMS4ACBG+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lights Out?

132 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?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 20 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 Out?

19 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 24, 25, 26 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
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