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The Lord of Lightning · King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

EXERCISE 12 OF 29
Groove L
89 / 126 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N
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
GROOVE · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Lord of Lightning on drums

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.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
60/100

hi-hat through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-24, toms through bars 25-29, snare through bars 30-52, toms through bars 53-56 and snare through bars 57-114, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    24
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
SD |----x-x-----x-x-----x-x-----x-x-|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----x-x-----x-x-----|
The Lord of Lightning -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

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 -- H, E -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part N -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED