Dear Rosemary · Foo Fighters

137 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 4:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-23 and 25-31, and 5 more places -- 31.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 123 BPM
DEAR ROSEMARY · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 3, 4, 16, 24, 32, 36 and 10 more.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

137 bars across 15 sections: 104 keep time, 16 are fills, 2 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 98-109.

PART D
CHORUS
PART J
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART L
PART N
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesELJDN+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dear Rosemary?

123 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 Dear Rosemary hard to play on drums?

60 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Dear Rosemary?

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 3, 4, 16, 24, 32, 36 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED
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