Back Pocket · Vulfpeck

68 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:01 of playing, on ride, snare and kick.

Funk / SoulPop90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-8, 10 and 12, and 6 more places -- 37.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BACK POCKET · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

68 bars across 7 sections: 53 keep time and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-32.

CHORUS
PART F
PART S4
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBFLOS4+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Back Pocket?

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 Pocket hard to play on drums?

39 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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