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Friends In Low Places · Garth Brooks

Friends In Low Places · Garth Brooks
EXERCISE 5 OF 15
Groove C
84 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 15 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, OUTRO
PART A
PART B
CHORUS
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDABS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Friends In Low Places on drums

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

24 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
24/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-20, snare through bars 21-44, kick and crashes through bars 45-60 and snare through bars 61-117.

The beat

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.

    22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Friends In Low Places -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Bars 18-48 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED