Lithium · Evanescence

105 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 3:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21, 23 and 25, and 16 more places -- 30.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 114 BPM
LITHIUM · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 18, 20, 28, 34, 42, 46 and 9 more.

LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BARS 68-72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 8 sections: 65 keep time, 15 are fills, 2 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 92-105.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDJS1HS2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lithium?

114 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 Lithium hard to play on drums?

41 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 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 Lithium?

3 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 18, 20, 28, 34, 42, 46 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED
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