Lying Sub · Faceplate

75 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 1:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
1:58
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 12 more places -- 29.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
LYING SUB · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 1, 7 and 33.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 10 sections: 51 keep time, 3 are fills and 35 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-48.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
BREAK 3
OUTRO
8 groovesBS6MS8I+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lying Sub?

120 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 Lying Sub 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 1:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 10 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Lying Sub?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 1, 7 and 33.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED
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