Paper Lantern Heart · Sinyk

144 bars of 4/4 at 153 BPM, about 3:46 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
153 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-10, 28-30 and 32-34, and 12 more places -- 27.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 153 BPM
PAPER LANTERN HEART · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 11, 14 and 31 more.

LOOP · 153 BPM
BARS 4-7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 153 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 153 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 153 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 16 sections: 65 keep time, 37 are fills, 18 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 37-42.

PART C
PART P
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
9 groovesHJCPAF+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Paper Lantern Heart?

153 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 Paper Lantern Heart hard to play on drums?

46 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Paper Lantern Heart?

13 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 11, 14 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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