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Back 2 Good · Matchbox Twenty

EXERCISE 25 OF 27
Run C2 · Outro (bars 103-108)
121 / 122 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBCGFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Back 2 Good on drums

122 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 5:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
5:25
DIFFICULTY
43/100

hi-hat through bars 1-77, ride through bars 78-80, hi-hat through bars 81-86, ride through bars 87-93 and hi-hat through bars 94-122.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-27, 29 and 32-36, and 9 more places -- 67.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---------|
Back 2 Good -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 57, 81, 85, 87, 88, 89 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Bars 37-66 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 89-106 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Back 2 Good?

90 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 Back 2 Good hard to play on drums?

43 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 5:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Back 2 Good?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 57, 81, 85, 87, 88, 89 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED