Luminary · Tesseract

82 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 156 BPM, 3:08 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 21-23 and 50-53 -- 13.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 156 BPM
LUMINARY · BARS 21-22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 7, 9, 11, 24, 26 and 9 more.

LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 156 BPM
BARS 26-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 156 BPM
BARS 30-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 7 sections: 29 keep time, 15 are fills, 1 is a stop and 31 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-17.

PART C
PART L
PART O
CHORUS
OUTRO
BREAK
6 groovesS7UCLO+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Luminary?

156 BPM, in 6/4, 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?

45 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 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 Luminary?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 7, 9, 11, 24, 26 and 9 more.

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