Tell a lie 24/7 · Unlucky Morpheus × Undead Corporation

177 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 3:22 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-19, 21-23 and 42-43, and 9 more places -- 20.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 210 BPM
TELL A LIE 24/7 · BAR 58
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 3, 4, 7, 8, 17, 24 and 42 more.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

177 bars across 17 sections: 93 keep time, 48 are fills and 17 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-16.

PART I
PART I
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART I
PART AO
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesKIQAOAC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tell a lie 24/7?

210 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Tell a lie 24/7 hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Tell a lie 24/7?

22 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 3, 4, 7, 8, 17, 24 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED
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