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Lord of Flies · Shrine of Malice, Tom Barber

Lord of Flies · Shrine of Malice, Tom Barber
EXERCISE 22 OF 123
Run I1 · Break 3 (bars 26-27)
127 / 377 BARS COVERED
0 / 123 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE BREAK 3
BREAK 3
CHORUS
PART B
BREAK 8
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
26 groovesSLRWB+21Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 21
FILL · 26
LAND · 26
RUN · 3
JOIN · 24
LINK · 6
SECTION · 16
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lord of Flies on drums

377 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 7:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
377
LENGTH
7:09
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-17, toms through bars 18-19, silence through bars 20-21, toms through bars 22-24, snare through bars 25-27 and silence through bars 28-33, and 29 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-44, 47 and 51-52, and 21 more places -- 14.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    43
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
SD |x---------------|
BD |--------xxxxxxxx|
Lord of Flies -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

26 fills to learn, played 87 times: bars 18, 22, 23, 24, 25, 30 and 81 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 96 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 -- S, R -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AD -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  3. Bars 18-323 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 18-26 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 22-28 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 26-242 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 30-121 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part L -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 18 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Lord of Flies?

210 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 Lord of Flies hard to play on drums?

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

377 bars, about 7:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 96 exercises over 26 sittings, about 28 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.

How many fills are in Lord of Flies?

26 fills to learn, played 87 times: bars 18, 22, 23, 24, 25, 30 and 81 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 377 BARS ANALYSED