Lions · Dire Straits

140 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 5:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
5:05
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 21-27 and 34, and 20 more places -- 56.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 110 BPM
LIONS · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 32, 68, 71, 72 and 107.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 71-72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 107 · LANDS ON BAR 108
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

140 bars across 7 sections: 113 keep time, 5 are fills, 2 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 108-140.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBDS1KFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lions?

110 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 Lions hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 5:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 8 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Lions?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 32, 68, 71, 72 and 107.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED
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