The Lottery, Part II · Alpha Current

44 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 1:47 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
44
LENGTH
1:47
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 70% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-16 and 30-45 -- 69.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 94 BPM
THE LOTTERY, PART II · BAR 1
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

50 bars across 5 sections: 38 keep time, 6 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-46.

CHORUS
PART B
PART C
OUTRO
BREAK
4 groovesACBS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Lottery, Part II?

94 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 Lottery, Part II hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

44 bars, about 1:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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