Truths, Ironies, the Secret Lyrics · Foreground Eclipse

146 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-25, 35-41 and 91-97, and 3 more places -- 29.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
TRUTHS, IRONIES, THE SECRET LYRICS · BAR 35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9 and 25 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 3-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

146 bars across 15 sections: 93 keep time, 31 are fills, 8 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 104-112.

PART B
CHORUS
PART W
PART AA
PART AE
CHORUS 2
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesJWAABAE+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Truths, Ironies, the Secret Lyrics?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Truths, Ironies, the Secret Lyrics hard to play on drums?

53 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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 Truths, Ironies, the Secret Lyrics?

19 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED
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