Lorelei · Styx

126 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23, 57 and 59, and 3 more places -- 14.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 145 BPM
LORELEI · BAR 121
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 22, 24, 25, 26, 38, 40 and 17 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 24-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 40-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 11 sections: 43 keep time, 23 are fills, 20 are stops and 31 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 70-79.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART S4
PART Q
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART C
8 groovesGCS1RS4+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lorelei?

145 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 Lorelei 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 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 Lorelei?

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 22, 24, 25, 26, 38, 40 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
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