lowkey pretty good · FUBAR

73 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 2:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
2:07
DIFFICULTY
99/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 8-10, 12-14 and 33, and 2 more places -- 17.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 146 BPM
LOWKEY PRETTY GOOD · BARS 8-9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 3, 6, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 12 more.

LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4
LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 146 BPM
BARS 28-31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 10 sections: 38 keep time, 18 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-14.

PART C
CHORUS
PART I
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART T
PART V
PART Z
OUTRO
BREAK
9 groovesFVIOZ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is lowkey pretty good?

146 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 lowkey pretty good hard to play on drums?

99 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 2:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 lowkey pretty good?

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 3, 6, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other FUBAR drum parts

EVERY FUBAR CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →