Lost In Fairyland · Aegirson

175 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
175
LENGTH
4:59
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-34, 59-66 and 142-149 -- 13.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
LOST IN FAIRYLAND · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 22, 23, 24, 25, 38, 42 and 13 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 22-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 98 · LANDS ON BAR 99 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 121-122 · LANDS ON BAR 123 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

175 bars across 25 sections: 104 keep time, 19 are fills and 17 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-21.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART Q
CHORUS 3
PART AC
11 groovesEAMKI+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lost In Fairyland?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Lost In Fairyland hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

175 bars, about 4:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Lost In Fairyland?

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 22, 23, 24, 25, 38, 42 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 175 BARS ANALYSED
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