Exhausted · Foo Fighters

172 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 5:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
5:53
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-17, 20-23 and 26-29, and 13 more places -- 37.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 117 BPM
EXHAUSTED · BAR 72
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 24, 30, 34, 52, 55, 56 and 16 more.

LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 117 BPM
BARS 55-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

172 bars across 13 sections: 119 keep time, 22 are fills, 8 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 36-51.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART G
PART O
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCGOS1B+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Exhausted?

117 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 Exhausted 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

172 bars, about 5:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 7 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Exhausted?

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 24, 30, 34, 52, 55, 56 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 172 BARS ANALYSED
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