Lonely Boy · The Black Keys

132 bars at 166 BPM -- fast, and 3:11 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieJazz / Blues150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
166 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-43 and 60-83 -- 39% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 166 BPM
LONELY BOY · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 8 sections: 115 keep time, 1 is a stop and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 104-131.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDEGCS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lonely Boy?

166 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Lonely Boy hard to play on drums?

48 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 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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