Asking For A Friend ( corrected ) · Foo Fighters

152 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 102 BPM, 4:28 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 44-50, 52-59 and 64-70, and 6 more places -- 44.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 102 BPM
ASKING FOR A FRIEND ( CORRECTED ) · BAR 44
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 27, 28, 32, 36, 40, 43 and 14 more.

LOOP · 102 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

152 bars across 15 sections: 98 keep time, 20 are fills and 25 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 112-126.

COUNT-IN
PART E
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesHES1PB+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Asking For A Friend ( corrected )?

102 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Asking For A Friend ( corrected ) hard to play on drums?

56 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 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 Asking For A Friend ( corrected )?

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 27, 28, 32, 36, 40, 43 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED
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