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Lions In A Cage · Pentagram (Mezarkabul)

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EXERCISE 1 OF 43
Groove F -- Outro (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 43 PASSED · 20 BARS LIT
PART A
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART I
PART N
OUTRO
BREAK 3
9 groovesCS13FNA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 4
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lions In A Cage on drums

119 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 5:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
5:43
DIFFICULTY
68/100

hi-hat through bars 1-17, ride through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-38, ride through bars 39-46, hi-hat through bars 47-59 and toms through bars 60-78, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18, 20 and 39, and 3 more places -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    79                                               80
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|x-----------------------------x-----------x-----|
RD |------x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|------x-----x-----x-----x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|------------x-----------------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--------x--------x--------x-----x--------x-----|x--------x--------x-----x--x--------x--x--------|
Lions In A Cage -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 3, 7, 17, 22, 24, 28 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, G -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 9-26 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part I -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 45-58 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Bars 57-60 -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Lions In A Cage?

100 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 Lions In A Cage hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 5:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 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 Lions In A Cage?

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 3, 7, 17, 22, 24, 28 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED