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Lost In Fairyland · Aegirson

EXERCISE 12 OF 63
Run E1 · Chorus (bars 27-35)
91 / 175 BARS COVERED
0 / 63 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 14
LINK · 3
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lost In Fairyland on drums

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.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
175
LENGTH
4:59
DIFFICULTY
76/100

hi-hat through bars 1-21, kick and crashes through bars 22-23, toms through bars 24-26, snare through bars 27-34, hi-hat through bars 35-46 and ride through bars 47-50, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    27
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------x-----------------x-----------|
SD |x-----------------x-----------------x-----------|
BD |------x-----x-----------x-----x-----------x-----|
Lost In Fairyland -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part F and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 57-114 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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