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Lorelei · Styx

EXERCISE 20 OF 46
Groove Q -- Part Q
63 / 126 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q, PART R
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lorelei on drums

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.

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
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-22, hi-hat through bars 23-24, toms through bars 25-26, hi-hat through bars 27-42, toms through bars 43-45 and silence through bars 46-56, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    121
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x---x---x-|
Lorelei -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part S4 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part S4 and Part Q -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part Q and Part R -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 58-87 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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