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Lithium · Evanescence

EXERCISE 13 OF 27
Join Chorus to Part H (bars 33-35)
77 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART H
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART H
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDJS1HS2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lithium on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-38, ride through bars 39-54, hi-hat through bars 55-90 and ride through bars 91-105.

The beat

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.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|
Lithium -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- D, J -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Bars 21-69 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 33-46 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part J and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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