Low Rider · War

112 bars of 4/4 at 141 BPM, about 3:11 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.

RockFunk / Soul120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
141 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 89% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-9, 11-21 and 23-38, and 8 more places -- 89% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 141 BPM
LOW RIDER · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 84.

LOOP · 141 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 2 sections: 108 keep time, 1 is a fill and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-83.

OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Low Rider?

141 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?

54 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Low Rider?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 84.

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