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Down Low · Betzefer

Down Low · Betzefer
EXERCISE 37 OF 44
Groove R -- Outro 2
68 / 78 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART G
PART L
PART S10
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBGELR+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Down Low on drums

78 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-55, ride through bars 56-63, silence through bars 64-69, ride through bars 70-73 and snare through bars 74-78.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-12 and 14-17, and 2 more places -- 27.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x--xx--xx-xxxx-x|
Down Low -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 13, 21, 31, 43, 47 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G, L -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-54 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 14-48 -- 9 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  5. Bars 26-51 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 52-64 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part S10 and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Down Low?

90 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 Down Low 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 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 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 Down Low?

10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 13, 21, 31, 43, 47 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED