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Lowdown (Official Video) · Boz Skaggs

EXERCISE 10 OF 13
Fill at bar 109 (a small one)
153 / 156 BARS COVERED
0 / 13 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesDBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lowdown (Official Video) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
5:27
DIFFICULTY
49/100

toms through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-156.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Lowdown (Official Video) -- 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 109.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED