Louie Louie · Iggy Pop

100 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 3:26 of playing, on crash, ride, snare and kick.

RockPunk90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 68% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-16, 26-32 and 42-48, and 4 more places -- 67.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 117 BPM
LOUIE LOUIE · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 5, 17, 25, 33, 41, 49 and 3 more.

LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 8 sections: 80 keep time, 9 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-69.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Louie Louie?

117 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 Louie Louie hard to play on drums?

43 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Louie Louie?

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 5, 17, 25, 33, 41, 49 and 3 more.

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