Lights · Show Me a Dinosaur

97 bars, 5:23, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
5:23
DIFFICULTY
88/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 5 more places -- 20.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 72 BPM
LIGHTS · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 17, 22, 24 and 13 more.

LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 8 sections: 66 keep time, 19 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 68-80.

CHORUS
PART J
PART L
PART N
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCVTLQ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lights?

72 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Lights hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 5:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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?

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 17, 22, 24 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED
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