Loving a Lie · Saved by Grace

121 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 9 more places -- 21.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
LOVING A LIE · BAR 98
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 4, 8, 10, 12, 15, 16 and 29 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 14 sections: 54 keep time, 35 are fills, 18 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 110-117.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART O
PART N
PART W
PART AN
OUTRO
11 groovesAWANNO+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Loving a Lie?

150 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 Loving a Lie 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 14 sittings, about 28 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 Loving a Lie?

17 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 4, 8, 10, 12, 15, 16 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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