Lucretia · Megadeth

95 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 4:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14, 16 and 18, and 13 more places -- 25.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 92 BPM
LUCRETIA · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 14 more.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BARS 7-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 92 BPM
BARS 33-35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BARS 51-55 · LANDS ON BAR 56 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

95 bars across 11 sections: 53 keep time, 20 are fills, 8 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 73-86.

PART S2
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART P
PART R
CHORUS 3
7 groovesHKS2PR+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lucretia?

92 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 Lucretia hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 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 Lucretia?

7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED
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