Baby Come Back · Player

157 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 4:02 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 50 more places -- 47.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 156 BPM
BABY COME BACK · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 76, 77, 81, 85, 89, 92 and 6 more.

LOOP · 156 BPM
BARS 76-77 · LANDS ON BAR 78 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 81 · LANDS ON BAR 82
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 85 · LANDS ON BAR 86
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 89 · LANDS ON BAR 90

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

157 bars across 10 sections: 122 keep time, 12 are fills, 13 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 58-75.

PART B
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
6 groovesABQS4S8+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Baby Come Back?

156 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 Baby Come Back hard to play on drums?

40 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 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 Baby Come Back?

9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 76, 77, 81, 85, 89, 92 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED
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