Lingus · Snarky Puppy

320 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 10:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
320
LENGTH
10:43
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 178-192, 194-200 and 202-208, and 6 more places -- 25.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
LINGUS · BARS 178-179
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 82 times: bars 8, 20, 24, 25, 26, 41 and 76 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 24-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 45-50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

320 bars across 14 sections: 179 keep time, 82 are fills, 3 are stops and 40 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 179-256.

PART C
PART AC
PART BM
CHORUS
OUTRO
BREAK
14 groovesCDBMACS14CO+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lingus?

130 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Lingus hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 83 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

320 bars, about 10:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 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 Lingus?

9 fills to learn, played 82 times: bars 8, 20, 24, 25, 26, 41 and 76 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 320 BARS ANALYSED
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