Lord Lucan Is Missing · Black Box Recorder

58 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 1:43 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
58
LENGTH
1:43
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-8, 17-24 and 33-41, and 3 more places -- 48.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 135 BPM
LORD LUCAN IS MISSING · BAR 1
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

58 bars across 6 sections: 52 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-47.

CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lord Lucan Is Missing?

135 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 Lord Lucan Is Missing hard to play on drums?

39 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

58 bars, about 1:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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