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Big Me · Foo Fighters

EXERCISE 14 OF 19
Join Chorus to Outro (bars 35-37)
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PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Big Me on drums

68 bars of 4/4 at 129 BPM, about 2:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
129 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
2:07
DIFFICULTY
63/100

ride through bars 1-16, toms through bars 17-18, ride through bars 19-20, toms through bars 21-22, ride through bars 23-40 and toms through bars 41-42, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 8 more places -- 42.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|
Big Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 24, 32, 48, 56 and 67.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- B, A -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Big Me?

129 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 Big Me hard to play on drums?

63 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 2:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Big Me?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 24, 32, 48, 56 and 67.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED