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Lilacs · ghost spirit

Lilacs · ghost spirit
EXERCISE 8 OF 34
2-bar fill at bar 61
48 / 77 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAOPSFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lilacs on drums

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

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
2:13
DIFFICULTY
68/100

hi-hat through bars 1-28, snare through bars 29-32, kick and crashes through bars 33-34, hi-hat through bars 35-38, snare through bars 39-60 and toms through bars 61-62, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    39
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--------x-----x--------x--------x-----x--------|
Lilacs -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- O, A -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-63 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-62 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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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