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Looking Around · Alternative Competition 6

EXERCISE 30 OF 31
Run P1 · Outro 2 (bars 145-157)
109 / 157 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
PART B
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART G
CHORUS 3
BREAK 4
PART A
OUTRO 2
12 groovesCAS16GP+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Looking Around on drums

157 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
48/100

toms through bars 1-84, hi-hat through bars 85-86, toms through bars 87-108, silence through bars 109-132, toms through bars 133-140 and ride through bars 141-157.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-20, 29-44 and 69-84 -- 30.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |--------x-------|
T1 |--x---x---x---x-|
FT |x---x---------x-|
HF |x---x---x---x---|
Looking Around -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- C, G -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Bars 3-16 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-32 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 41-56 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Bars 53-140 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 139-145 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Looking Around?

150 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 Looking Around hard to play on drums?

48 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED