Lowpoint · NAPALM DEATH

168 bars at 205 BPM -- fast, and 3:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
205 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 18-20, and 9 more places -- 21.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 205 BPM
LOWPOINT · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 5, 8, 9, 13, 21, 29 and 18 more.

LOOP · 205 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 205 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 205 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 205 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

168 bars across 17 sections: 114 keep time, 24 are fills, 10 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 78-98.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART N
PART S
PART N
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesFNISL+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lowpoint?

205 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Lowpoint hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 86 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 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 Lowpoint?

11 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 5, 8, 9, 13, 21, 29 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED
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