Low Rider · Ross Carnes

96 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Funk / Soul90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-36, 38 and 40, and 14 more places -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 115 BPM
LOW RIDER · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 93, 94, 95 and 96.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BARS 93-96 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 5 sections: 84 keep time and 4 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-66.

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

Questions

What BPM is Low Rider?

115 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 Rider hard to play on drums?

40 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 9 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Rider?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 93, 94, 95 and 96.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED
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