Good Grief · Foo Fighters

189 bars at 193 BPM -- fast, and 3:54 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
193 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
189
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 87% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4-18 and 20-48, and 10 more places -- 87.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 193 BPM
GOOD GRIEF · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 3, 19, 49, 57, 58, 74 and 17 more.

LOOP · 193 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4
LOOP · 193 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 193 BPM
BARS 57-58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 193 BPM
BARS 112-117 · LANDS ON BAR 118 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

189 bars across 2 sections: 164 keep time, 23 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-48.

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

Questions

What BPM is Good Grief?

193 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 Good Grief hard to play on drums?

54 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

189 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Good Grief?

6 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 3, 19, 49, 57, 58, 74 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 189 BARS ANALYSED
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