Lipstick On The Glass (AI) · Wolf Alice

78 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 3:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-19, 54-56 and 58-60, and 1 more place -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 94 BPM
LIPSTICK ON THE GLASS (AI) · BARS 18-19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 17, 19, 20, 53, 65, 69 and 1 more.

LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 94 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70
LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 77 · LANDS ON BAR 78
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

78 bars across 14 sections: 46 keep time, 7 are fills, 4 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-16.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART F
PART S6
PART J
PART K
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART F
OUTRO 2
12 groovesDOSFL+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lipstick On The Glass (AI)?

94 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 Lipstick On The Glass (AI) hard to play on drums?

54 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Lipstick On The Glass (AI)?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 17, 19, 20, 53, 65, 69 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED
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