"Sweet 'Lil Lies" Official Music Video · Joanne Shaw Taylor

160 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 5:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 71% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 11-31, 33-39 and 41-47, and 9 more places -- 70.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 123 BPM
"SWEET 'LIL LIES" OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO · BARS 11-12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 32 and 10 more.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BARS 6-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

160 bars across 5 sections: 129 keep time, 16 are fills and 9 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-71.

PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO
5 groovesFDSVRFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is "Sweet 'Lil Lies" Official Music Video?

123 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 "Sweet 'Lil Lies" Official Music Video 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?

160 bars, about 5:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 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 "Sweet 'Lil Lies" Official Music Video?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 32 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED
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