Low · Foo Fighters

160 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 4:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-7, 10-15 and 18-22, and 5 more places -- 20.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 144 BPM
LOW · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 8, 16, 23, 24, 32, 40 and 30 more.

LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

160 bars across 11 sections: 111 keep time, 36 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 125-132.

CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART O
PART H
PART J
PART O
PART W
OUTRO
6 groovesBOJWH+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Low?

144 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?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Low?

15 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 8, 16, 23, 24, 32, 40 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED
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