Our Lips Are Sealed · Everclear

91 bars of 4/4 at 139 BPM, about 2:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
139 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
2:37
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-9 and 11-13, and 8 more places -- 31.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 139 BPM
OUR LIPS ARE SEALED · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 22, 26, 30 and 9 more.

LOOP · 139 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 139 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 139 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 139 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

91 bars across 11 sections: 62 keep time, 15 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 55-64.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART R
CHORUS 3
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBKRET+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Our Lips Are Sealed?

139 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 Our Lips Are Sealed hard to play on drums?

55 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 2:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 Our Lips Are Sealed?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 22, 26, 30 and 9 more.

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