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Lions · Dire Straits

EXERCISE 12 OF 26
Join Part D to Chorus 2 (bars 34-36)
104 / 140 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lions on drums

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.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
5:05
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-28, ride through bars 29-31, hi-hat through bars 32-52, ride through bars 53-55 and hi-hat through bars 56-88, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------------x-|
Lions -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- B, C -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 34-67 -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 58-73 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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