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Lye Solution · Static Dress

EXERCISE 3 OF 86
Groove A -- Part A (a two-bar phrase)
21 / 141 BARS COVERED
0 / 86 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
CHORUS
PART I
PART R
PART Y
CHORUS 2
PART Y
PART AP
OUTRO
9 groovesDYAPRS11+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lye Solution on drums

141 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:19 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
67/100

hi-hat through bars 1-15, toms through bars 16-27, hi-hat through bars 28-89, ride through bars 90-97, toms through bars 98-100 and hi-hat through bars 101-104, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 59, and 2 more places -- 8.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9                10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x--xxxx-x-xx|x-x-------------|
HH |----------------|------o-o---o-o-|
SD |----x--xx---x---|x-----x-x---x-x-|
BD |x-x-----xxx---xx|--x-x-----x-----|
Lye Solution -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

23 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 8, 10, 14, 16, 20, 24 and 52 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  8. Through Part R -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Lye Solution?

170 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 Lye Solution hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 21 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Lye Solution?

23 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 8, 10, 14, 16, 20, 24 and 52 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED