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Times Like These · Foo Fighters

EXERCISE 20 OF 34
Groove P -- Part P
99 / 133 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P
COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART P
OUTRO
BREAK
5 groovesHS6PDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Times Like These on drums

133 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 4:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-40, snare through bars 41-51, hi-hat through bars 52-73, snare through bars 74-84 and hi-hat through bars 85-88, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19, 21-29 and 31-35, and 17 more places -- 59.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Times Like These -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 20, 30, 38, 40, 47 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- H, C -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part P -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part P and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Times Like These?

144 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 Times Like These hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 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 Times Like These?

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 20, 30, 38, 40, 47 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED