Marigold · Foo Fighters

108 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 2:59 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-32, 53-68 and 81-96 -- 47.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 145 BPM
MARIGOLD · BARS 17-18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 8.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 9 sections: 63 keep time, 1 is a fill, 32 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-40.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCES1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Marigold?

145 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 Marigold hard to play on drums?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Marigold?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 8.

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