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Everlong · Foo Fighters

EXERCISE 10 OF 44
Fill at bar 14, 21, 42 and 85
87 / 158 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT
PART B
VERSE
PART G
VERSE 2
PART G
CHORUS
VERSE 3
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesMDGBS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Everlong on drums

158 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 4:00 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
79/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-64, snare through bars 65-66, hi-hat through bars 67-68, snare through bars 69-70 and hi-hat through bars 71-72, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 59, 62 and 65-66, and 10 more places -- 19.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    65
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x-x-|
SD |----X--x----X---|
BD |--x-----x-x---x-|
Everlong -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 14, 21, 28, 35, 42, 49 and 44 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- M -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-142 -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and the Verse -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Verse and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and the Verse 2 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Everlong?

158 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 Everlong hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 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 Everlong?

9 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 14, 21, 28, 35, 42, 49 and 44 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 158 BARS ANALYSED