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EXERCISE 19 OF 52
Groove J
34 / 73 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play lowkey pretty good on drums

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.

99 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
2:07
DIFFICULTY
99/100

toms through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-7, ride through bars 8-15, hi-hat through bars 16-19, snare through bars 20-28 and ride through bars 29-40, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    8                                                9
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
RD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--------------------------|
SD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--------------------------|
T1 |------------------------------------------------|------------------------x-----x-----------------|
T2 |------------------------------------------------|------------------------x-----x-----x-----x-----|
FT |------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------x-----x-----|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
lowkey pretty good -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- F -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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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