The Look · Metronomy

186 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieElectronic150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
186
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-32, 51-66 and 69-86, and 2 more places -- 57% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 170 BPM
THE LOOK · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

186 bars across 8 sections: 166 keep time and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 52-86.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Look?

170 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 The Look hard to play on drums?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the speed of the hand keeping time the part that decides it. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

186 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 2 sittings, about 31 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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