look at me now · vex (really mainly by lia)

128 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:51 of it without a break -- on hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and upFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 19 and 21, and 40 more places -- 47.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 180 BPM
LOOK AT ME NOW · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 128.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 128
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 7 sections: 107 keep time, 1 is a fill and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 63-103.

COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCEDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is look at me now?

180 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 look at me now hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 2:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

How many fills are in look at me now?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 128.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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