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Lucidity · Tame Impala

EXERCISE 15 OF 72
Groove E -- Part E
98 / 159 BARS COVERED
0 / 72 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT
PART C
CHORUS
PART I
PART E
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 14
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lucidity on drums

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.

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
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
51/100

hi-hat through bars 1-78, ride through bars 79-84, hi-hat through bars 85-90, ride through bars 91-92, snare through bars 93-94 and ride through bars 95-96, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    13               14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o-o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-----x-|x-------x-x-----|
Lucidity -- 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 8, 16, 32, 36, 39, 42 and 29 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- F, I -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part C -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 12-48 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 48-75 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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