Lunatic Fringe · Red Rider

89 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 3:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-15, 17 and 19, and 13 more places -- 54.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 98 BPM
LUNATIC FRINGE · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 4, 26, 34, 44, 52, 59 and 10 more.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 6 sections: 63 keep time, 16 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-25.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
5 groovesCDGS1S6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lunatic Fringe?

98 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 Lunatic Fringe hard to play on drums?

57 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 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 Lunatic Fringe?

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 4, 26, 34, 44, 52, 59 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED
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