Lithonia · Childish Gambino

68 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 1:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
1:58
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 16, and 12 more places -- 24.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 138 BPM
LITHONIA · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

68 bars across 7 sections: 37 keep time, 18 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-24.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCAFES1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lithonia?

138 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 Lithonia hard to play on drums?

40 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 1:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 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.

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