Sid & Nancy · Lumen

93 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 3:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-15, 31 and 34-35, and 3 more places -- 20.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 124 BPM
SID & NANCY · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 32, 51, 52, 60, 84, 91 and 1 more.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BARS 51-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
LOOP · 124 BPM
BARS 91-92 · LANDS ON BAR 93 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

93 bars across 10 sections: 66 keep time, 7 are fills, 2 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-31.

PART D
CHORUS
PART J
PART G
PART N
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesEGDNM+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sid & Nancy?

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 Sid & Nancy hard to play on drums?

48 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?

93 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 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 Sid & Nancy?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 32, 51, 52, 60, 84, 91 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED
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