The Lord of Lightning · King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

126 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 4:29 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockProgressive90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-22, 24 and 39, and 13 more places -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 113 BPM
THE LORD OF LIGHTNING · BAR 24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 9 sections: 111 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 69-94.

PART E
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART N
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesHNECFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Lord of Lightning?

113 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Lord of Lightning hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 13 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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.

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