Lotus · Soen

84 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 4:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31, 35-37 and 39, and 12 more places -- 31.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 78 BPM
LOTUS · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 5, 6, 21, 22, 29, 30 and 11 more.

LOOP · 78 BPM
BARS 5-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 78 BPM
BARS 29-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 5 sections: 58 keep time, 17 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-20.

PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesJES1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lotus?

78 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 Lotus hard to play on drums?

51 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Lotus?

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 5, 6, 21, 22, 29, 30 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED
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