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Lookin' Out Forever · Paul Westerberg

Lookin' Out Forever · Paul Westerberg
EXERCISE 4 OF 15
Groove B
113 / 121 BARS COVERED
0 / 15 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lookin' Out Forever on drums

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

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
52/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Lookin' Out Forever -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- A, C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 5-29 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 25-96 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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