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Back In The U.S.S.R. · The Beatles

EXERCISE 5 OF 47
Fill at bar 5, 13, 53 and 83
48 / 90 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT
PART B
CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART X
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEXPNB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Back In The U.S.S.R. on drums

90 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 2:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
2:31
DIFFICULTY
53/100

toms through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-31, kick and crashes through bars 32-33, ride through bars 34-35, hi-hat through bars 36-59 and ride through bars 60-69, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-12, 15 and 18, and 7 more places -- 30.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Back In The U.S.S.R. -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 5, 13, 19, 23, 27, 31 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- E, D -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through Part P and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part X -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 56-74 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Back In The U.S.S.R.?

142 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 The U.S.S.R. hard to play on drums?

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 2:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Back In The U.S.S.R.?

11 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 5, 13, 19, 23, 27, 31 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED