The Last Remaining Light · Audioslave

129 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 5:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
5:10
DIFFICULTY
35/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-22, 30 and 32-43, and 2 more places -- 31.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 100 BPM
THE LAST REMAINING LIGHT · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 84, 88, 90, 110, 114, 118 and 6 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 90 · LANDS ON BAR 91 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 110 · LANDS ON BAR 111
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 124-128 · LANDS ON BAR 129 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 14 sections: 94 keep time, 12 are fills, 10 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 66-79.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesCMEQA+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Last Remaining Light?

100 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 The Last Remaining Light hard to play on drums?

35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 5:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Last Remaining Light?

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 84, 88, 90, 110, 114, 118 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
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