Low · Cracker

97 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 4:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunkUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 68% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-9, 18-32 and 42-56, and 4 more places -- 68% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 88 BPM
LOW · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 33, 57, 81 and 89.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 89 · LANDS ON BAR 90
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 7 sections: 81 keep time, 5 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-32.

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

Questions

What BPM is Low?

88 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 Low hard to play on drums?

42 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Low?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 33, 57, 81 and 89.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED
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