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Lilac · Katatonia

EXERCISE 29 OF 76
Groove AE
67 / 149 BARS COVERED
0 / 76 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lilac on drums

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.

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
5:11
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 2-30, ride through bars 31-37, hi-hat through bars 38-63, silence through bars 64-65, hi-hat through bars 66-77 and toms through bars 78-82, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    49
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |o--o--o--o--|
SD |---x-----x--|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxx|
Lilac -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- Z, B -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part L and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through Part N and Part T -- 4 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  6. Bars 26-47 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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