Bow Down · Geese

96 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 3:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-10, 12-17 and 19-20, and 6 more places -- 34.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BOW DOWN · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 31, 32, 33, 34, 42 and 16 more.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 104 BPM
BARS 42-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 5 sections: 57 keep time, 22 are fills, 1 is a stop and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-17.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBTS4DFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bow Down?

104 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 Bow Down hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 10 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Bow Down?

7 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 31, 32, 33, 34, 42 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED
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