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Lonely Boy · The Black Keys

EXERCISE 13 OF 19
Run E1 · Part E (bars 44-59)
95 / 132 BARS COVERED
0 / 19 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
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
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lonely Boy on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
166 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-11, hi-hat through bars 12-20, snare through bars 21-43, ride through bars 44-59 and snare through bars 60-83, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

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 -- D, E -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Bars 10-47 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED