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Low · Cracker

Low · Cracker
EXERCISE 10 OF 15
Join Chorus 3 to Outro (bars 64-66)
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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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Low on drums

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

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
42/100

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 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.

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

The fills

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

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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
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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