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Loving a Lie · Saved by Grace

Loving a Lie · Saved by Grace
EXERCISE 24 OF 70
Join Chorus 2 to Part K (bars 19-21)
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0 / 70 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART K
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART K
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 1
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Loving a Lie on drums

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.

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
51/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-22, toms through bars 23-24, hi-hat through bars 25-36 and snare through bars 37-40, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    98
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
HH |--------------o-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x---x-----|
Loving a Lie -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 4, 8, 10, 12, 15, 16 and 29 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 -- A, M -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-21 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 11-21 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 19-26 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part O -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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