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Low · Lenny Kravitz

EXERCISE 5 OF 8
Join Chorus 2 to Break (bars 90-92)
131 / 140 BARS COVERED
0 / 8 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, BREAK
CHORUS
PART S2
CHORUS 2
BREAK
OUTRO
3 groovesAS2S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Low on drums

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

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
5:17
DIFFICULTY
48/100

hi-hat through bars 1-77, silence through bars 78-84 and hi-hat through bars 85-140.

The beat

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.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
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

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 6 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
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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