Lowdown (Official Video) · Boz Skaggs

156 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 5:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopRock90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
5:27
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 87% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 13 more places -- 87.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 114 BPM
LOWDOWN (OFFICIAL VIDEO) · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 109.

LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 109 · LANDS ON BAR 110
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

156 bars across 2 sections: 153 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-108.

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

Questions

What BPM is Lowdown (Official Video)?

114 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 Lowdown (Official Video) hard to play on drums?

49 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 5:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Lowdown (Official Video)?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 109.

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