Going Down · Freddie King

137 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:13 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Jazz / Blues150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 99% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-83 and 86-137 -- 98.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 170 BPM
GOING DOWN · BAR 2
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

137 bars across 2 sections: 134 keep time, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-83.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Going Down?

170 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 Going Down hard to play on drums?

49 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 3 exercises over 2 sittings, about 16 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED
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