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Lionheart · Lorna Shore

EXERCISE 1 OF 82
Groove K -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S14
PART BJ
BREAK 3
19 groovesS17KBJS14W+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 2
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lionheart on drums

205 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 5:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
205
LENGTH
5:40
DIFFICULTY
78/100

silence through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-39, snare through bars 40-51 and toms through bars 52-53, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-36, 38 and 68-71 -- 6.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    33
    1...............2...............3...............
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
Lionheart -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

21 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 30, 37, 44, 45, 46, 47 and 45 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 60 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 -- K -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AZ -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part G -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part G -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 40-50 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Lionheart?

135 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 Lionheart hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 95 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

205 bars, about 5:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 18 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Lionheart?

21 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 30, 37, 44, 45, 46, 47 and 45 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 205 BARS ANALYSED