On the Low · Hope Sandoval and the warm inventions

91 bars, 4:59, at 73 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
73 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
4:59
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4-6 and 8, and 16 more places -- 51.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 73 BPM
ON THE LOW · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 90.

LOOP · 73 BPM
BAR 90 · LANDS ON BAR 91
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

91 bars across 10 sections: 79 keep time, 1 is a fill, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-45.

CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCBS1S8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is On the Low?

73 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is On the Low hard to play on drums?

44 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 4:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in On the Low?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 90.

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