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Lights Theme · Death Note

Lights Theme · Death Note
EXERCISE 1 OF 16
Groove B -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBFDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lights Theme on drums

69 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:07 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
2:07
DIFFICULTY
39/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-69.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-27 and 45-48 -- 41.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |r---r---r---r---|
Lights Theme -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 28.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- B, D -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 5-47 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Lights Theme?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Theme hard to play on drums?

39 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 2:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Lights Theme?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 28.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED