The Lowest Common Denominator · Converge

51 bars, 2:51, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Metalcore / HardcoreUnder 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
51
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
33/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 74% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 7-13, 15 and 17-22, and 3 more places -- 73.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 70 BPM
THE LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR · BARS 7-8
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 6, 14, 34, 42 and 51.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 51
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

51 bars across 6 sections: 29 keep time, 5 are fills, 2 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-23.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK 2
OUTRO
5 groovesES4S1S2S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Lowest Common Denominator?

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

Is The Lowest Common Denominator hard to play on drums?

33 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

51 bars, about 2:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in The Lowest Common Denominator?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 6, 14, 34, 42 and 51.

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