Lookin' Out Forever · Paul Westerberg

121 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 3:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 60% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-8, 29-45 and 61-75, and 4 more places -- 59.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 136 BPM
LOOKIN' OUT FOREVER · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 28, 46, 76, 80 and 88.

LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 7 sections: 84 keep time, 5 are fills and 28 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-27.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lookin' Out Forever?

136 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 Lookin' Out Forever hard to play on drums?

52 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 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.

How many fills are in Lookin' Out Forever?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 28, 46, 76, 80 and 88.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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