← SONGS

Asking For A Friend ( corrected ) · Foo Fighters

EXERCISE 1 OF 46
Groove H -- Chorus
0 / 152 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 56 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Asking For A Friend ( corrected ) on drums

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.

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-22, toms through bars 23-28, ride through bars 29-43, snare through bars 44-59, toms through bars 60-63 and hi-hat through bars 64-79, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    44
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x---x-----x-|
Asking For A Friend ( corrected ) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- H, E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 29-64 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 62-91 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 87-111 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 109-127 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
START THE COURSE ↑

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