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Lonely Boy · Sex Pistols

EXERCISE 1 OF 24
Groove A -- Chorus
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0 / 24 PASSED · 73 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAGEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lonely Boy on drums

102 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
50/100

hi-hat through bars 1-52, snare through bars 53-62 and hi-hat through bars 63-102.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-19 and 21-27, and 5 more places -- 71.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 20, 44, 62, 78, 79, 80 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 20-63 -- 7 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Lonely Boy?

140 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 Lonely Boy hard to play on drums?

50 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Lonely Boy?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 20, 44, 62, 78, 79, 80 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED