Of All People · Foo Fighters

111 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 2:31 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
2:31
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 9 and 13, and 17 more places -- 44.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 176 BPM
OF ALL PEOPLE · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 24, 28, 40 and 9 more.

LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 10 sections: 71 keep time, 15 are fills, 10 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-39.

PART C
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBFCOS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Of All People?

176 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 Of All People hard to play on drums?

50 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 2:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Of All People?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 24, 28, 40 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED
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