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Thunder And Lightning · Accept

EXERCISE 1 OF 40
Groove A -- Chorus
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0 / 40 PASSED · 83 BARS LIT
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesABEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Thunder And Lightning on drums

148 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:48 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
72/100

ride through bars 1-20, toms through bars 21-22, ride through bars 23-94, kick and crashes through bars 95-98, ride through bars 99-146 and snare through bars 147-148.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 40 more places -- 56.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    1
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|
RD |------x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---x-------x---x-------|
Thunder And Lightning -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 16, 21, 22, 29, 38, 46 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 10 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Thunder And Lightning?

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

Is Thunder And Lightning hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Thunder And Lightning?

13 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 16, 21, 22, 29, 38, 46 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED