The Lord Of Lightning vs Balrog · King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

597 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 20:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
597
LENGTH
20:28
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 80, 82 and 84, and 28 more places -- 6.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 114 BPM
THE LORD OF LIGHTNING VS BALROG · BAR 82
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

24 fills to learn, played 96 times: bars 50, 54, 59, 67, 71, 79 and 90 more.

LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 79 · LANDS ON BAR 80 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

20 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

597 bars across 42 sections: 436 keep time, 96 are fills, 6 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-49.

CHORUS
PART BU
22 groovesEPAUBFS+17Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Lord Of Lightning vs Balrog?

114 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 vs Balrog hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

597 bars, about 20:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 136 exercises over 36 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 Lord Of Lightning vs Balrog?

24 fills to learn, played 96 times: bars 50, 54, 59, 67, 71, 79 and 90 more.

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