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The Lonely (Album Version) · Decalius

EXERCISE 16 OF 19
Fill at bar 67 (a small one)
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CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART D
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCEDS2S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Lonely (Album Version) on drums

72 bars, 5:51, at 49 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick and nothing else.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
49 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
5:51
DIFFICULTY
44/100

hi-hat through bars 2-49, kick and crashes through bars 50-51 and hi-hat through bars 52-72.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 13 and 29, and 8 more places -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    53
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x--------x--x--------x--|
HH |---o--o--------o--o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--------x--x--------x--|
The Lonely (Album Version) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 67.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- C, E -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-25 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is The Lonely (Album Version)?

49 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is The Lonely (Album Version) hard to play on drums?

44 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 5:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in The Lonely (Album Version)?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 67.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED