Lips Like Sugar · Echo And The Bunnymen

158 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:51 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
4:51
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 13 and 15, and 44 more places -- 43.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
LIPS LIKE SUGAR · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 9, 37, 45, 69, 73, 81 and 1 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

158 bars across 5 sections: 144 keep time, 7 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 129-158.

PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEBDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lips Like Sugar?

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 Lips Like Sugar hard to play on drums?

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 4:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Lips Like Sugar?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 9, 37, 45, 69, 73, 81 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 158 BARS ANALYSED
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