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

EXERCISE 1 OF 38
Groove F -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 38 PASSED · 113 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO
5 groovesFDSVRFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play "Sweet 'Lil Lies" Official Music Video on drums

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.

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
48/100

snare through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-136, ride through bars 137-140, hi-hat through bars 141-145 and snare through bars 146-160.

The beat

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.

    11               12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|x-------x-x-----|
"Sweet 'Lil Lies" Official Music Video -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through Part D -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 139-153 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Bars 144-160 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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