Low · Lenny Kravitz

140 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 5:17 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
5:17
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 99% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-76, 85-91 and 93-139 -- 98.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 106 BPM
LOW · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 140.

LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 140
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

140 bars across 5 sections: 129 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-76.

CHORUS
PART S2
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
3 groovesAS2S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Low?

106 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?

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?

140 bars, about 5:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Low?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 140.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED
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