Rebellion (Lies) · The Arcade Fire

158 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 5:06 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
5:06
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-41, 51-65 and 107-121, and 1 more place -- 28.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 124 BPM
REBELLION (LIES) · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 145 and 146.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BARS 145-146 · LANDS ON BAR 147 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

158 bars across 11 sections: 143 keep time and 2 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-34.

PART A
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART E
CHORUS 3
VERSE
OUTRO
5 groovesBAEFDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rebellion (Lies)?

124 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 Rebellion (Lies) hard to play on drums?

45 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 5:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Rebellion (Lies)?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 145 and 146.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 158 BARS ANALYSED
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