The Lung · Dinosaur Jr.

166 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:54 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7 and 9, and 26 more places -- 42.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 170 BPM
THE LUNG · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 8, 12, 14 and 16 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

166 bars across 6 sections: 123 keep time, 22 are fills and 14 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 69-84.

CHORUS
PART I
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCLIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Lung?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Lung hard to play on drums?

61 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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.

How many fills are in The Lung?

5 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 8, 12, 14 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED
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