A Country Boy Can Survive · Hank Williams Jr.

82 bars, 4:11, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Country / FolkRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-9, 19-21 and 25-28, and 6 more places -- 36.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 75 BPM
A COUNTRY BOY CAN SURVIVE · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 30, 33, 65, 68, 81 and 82.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66
LOOP · 75 BPM
BARS 81-82 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 6 sections: 68 keep time, 6 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-29.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCIDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Country Boy Can Survive?

75 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 A Country Boy Can Survive hard to play on drums?

41 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in A Country Boy Can Survive?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 30, 33, 65, 68, 81 and 82.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED
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