Lucky Man · Emerson, Lake & Palmer

118 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 50 BPM, 7:05 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockElectronicUnder 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
50 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
7:05
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 29-31 and 33, and 8 more places -- 20.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 50 BPM
LUCKY MAN · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 3, 4, 8, 10, 12, 16 and 20 more.

LOOP · 50 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 50 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 50 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 50 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars across 15 sections: 71 keep time, 26 are fills, 2 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 52-61.

PART D
PART K
PART D
CHORUS
PART AC
PART AA
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
12 groovesJDACBDAP+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lucky Man?

50 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Lucky Man hard to play on drums?

60 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 7:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 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 Lucky Man?

21 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 3, 4, 8, 10, 12, 16 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED
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