Lucy · Veil Of Maya

96 bars of 4/4 at 147 BPM, about 2:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreProgressive120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
2:36
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18, 20 and 23-27, and 7 more places -- 21.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 147 BPM
LUCY · BARS 32-33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 11 and 24 more.

LOOP · 147 BPM
BARS 2-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 147 BPM
BARS 6-7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 147 BPM
BARS 14-15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 9 sections: 55 keep time, 31 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-38.

PART F
CHORUS
PART N
PART U
PART AC
OUTRO
8 groovesKACFNU+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lucy?

147 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Lucy hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 2:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 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 Lucy?

11 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 11 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED
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