Luminary · Misery Signals

121 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 2:45 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 51-58 -- 7.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 175 BPM
LUMINARY · BAR 51
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8 and 58 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 1-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 7-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 20-23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 14 sections: 34 keep time, 64 are fills, 5 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 51-58.

PART K
PART F
BREAK 4
PART AB
CHORUS
OUTRO
12 groovesACFKABS9+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Luminary?

175 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Luminary hard to play on drums?

56 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 2:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Luminary?

12 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8 and 58 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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