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Back in My Ways · Movements

EXERCISE 27 OF 27
Play the whole song with the record
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBICES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Back in My Ways on drums

68 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 2:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
2:34
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-48 and snare through bars 49-68.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-32 -- 43.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 36, 40, 44, 48, 52, 56 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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, I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 5-49 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Back in My Ways?

106 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 in My Ways hard to play on drums?

44 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 2:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Back in My Ways?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 36, 40, 44, 48, 52, 56 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED