Lucidity · Tame Impala

159 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 4:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-15, 17-18 and 25-31, and 11 more places -- 24.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 146 BPM
LUCIDITY · BARS 13-14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 8, 16, 32, 36, 39, 42 and 29 more.

LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

159 bars across 17 sections: 94 keep time, 37 are fills, 9 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-31.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART J
PART AP
OUTRO 2
11 groovesFIRAPJ+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lucidity?

146 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 Lucidity 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

159 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Lucidity?

17 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 8, 16, 32, 36, 39, 42 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 159 BARS ANALYSED
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