Rope · Foo Fighters

148 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 4:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-15, 18-23 and 26-28, and 4 more places -- 18.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 138 BPM
ROPE · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 40, 44, 48, 52, 80, 84 and 19 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 92 · LANDS ON BAR 93

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

148 bars across 12 sections: 98 keep time, 25 are fills and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-34.

CHORUS
PART G
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART M
PART Z
8 groovesDMGZN+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rope?

138 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 Rope hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Rope?

10 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 40, 44, 48, 52, 80, 84 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED
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