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Bow Down · I Prevail

EXERCISE 38 OF 75
Join Part V to Chorus 2 (bars 78-80)
102 / 157 BARS COVERED
0 / 75 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART V, CHORUS 2
PART A
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
PART D
PART V
CHORUS 2
BREAK 3
OUTRO 2
14 groovesIADS12V+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 16
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bow Down on drums

157 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 4:02 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-23, toms through bars 24-25, kick and crashes through bars 26-32, snare through bars 33-61 and hi-hat through bars 62-69, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21, 37 and 39, and 14 more places -- 12.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    39
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-----x-|
BD |x-x-x-----x-x---|
Bow Down -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 8, 11, 12, 16, 19, 20 and 36 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 59 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 -- I, D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part A -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 50-72 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 62-75 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Bars 76-98 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Bow Down?

155 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Bow Down 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Bow Down?

15 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 8, 11, 12, 16, 19, 20 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED