Lilac · Katatonia

149 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 94 BPM, 5:11 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
5:11
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 47, 49 and 53, and 5 more places -- 9.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 94 BPM
LILAC · BAR 49
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 78 times: bars 4, 5, 8, 9, 12, 13 and 72 more.

LOOP · 94 BPM
BARS 4-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 94 BPM
BARS 12-15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 94 BPM
BARS 17-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 94 BPM
BARS 31-39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 9 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

149 bars across 14 sections: 55 keep time, 79 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 92-99.

PART B
PART N
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART AZ
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesZBAZBKN+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lilac?

94 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Lilac hard to play on drums?

56 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 5:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 17 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 Lilac?

18 fills to learn, played 78 times: bars 4, 5, 8, 9, 12, 13 and 72 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED
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