Luminol · Steven Wilson

387 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 8:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Jazz / BluesProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
387
LENGTH
8:44
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-25, 27-29 and 47-49, and 5 more places -- 7.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 176 BPM
LUMINOL · BAR 23
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 6, 10, 21, 22, 30, 38 and 44 more.

LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 176 BPM
BARS 21-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

387 bars across 37 sections: 242 keep time, 50 are fills, 10 are stops and 41 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 211-230.

PART AH
PART CY
PART DB
PART DH
27 groovesNEDHAHCQ+22Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Luminol?

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

Is Luminol hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

387 bars, about 8:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 126 exercises over 39 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 Luminol?

23 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 6, 10, 21, 22, 30, 38 and 44 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 387 BARS ANALYSED
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