Friends In Low Places · Garth Brooks

117 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:15 of playing, on crash, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Country / Folk90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
24/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 60% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-28, 30-32 and 34-44, and 8 more places -- 60.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 110 BPM
FRIENDS IN LOW PLACES · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 29, 69, 85 and 101.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 7 sections: 100 keep time, 4 are fills, 6 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-13.

PART A
PART B
CHORUS
PART A
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDABS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Friends In Low Places?

110 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 Friends In Low Places hard to play on drums?

24 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Friends In Low Places?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 29, 69, 85 and 101.

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