Lilacs · ghost spirit

77 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 2:13 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
2:13
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39-58 -- 26% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 123 BPM
LILACS · BAR 39
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 28 and 5 more.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

77 bars across 4 sections: 58 keep time, 11 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 40-58.

CHORUS
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAOPSFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lilacs?

123 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 Lilacs hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 2:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Lilacs?

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 28 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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