Back To Friends · sombr

77 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 3:19 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-21, 26-33 and 41-52, and 1 more place -- 31.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 93 BPM
BACK TO FRIENDS · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 53, 61 and 65.

LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

77 bars across 8 sections: 64 keep time, 3 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-20.

PART B
VERSE
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDBEGC+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Back To Friends?

93 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 To Friends 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 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 To Friends?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 53, 61 and 65.

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