Lily Of The Valley · Queen

24 bars, 1:15, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

RockPopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
24
LENGTH
1:15
DIFFICULTY
19/100
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 14 and 16.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

24 bars across 4 sections: 1 keeps time, 2 are fills, 11 are stops and 10 are silent.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
BREAK 2
4 groovesS2S1S3S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lily Of The Valley?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Lily Of The Valley hard to play on drums?

19 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how much of it falls off the beat.

How long is the drum part?

24 bars, about 1:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 16 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Lily Of The Valley?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 14 and 16.

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