Back To Me · All-American Rejects

182 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:17 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopAlternative / Indie150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
182
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 60% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-13 and 42-48, and 10 more places -- 59.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BACK TO ME · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 33, 40, 41, 81, 93 and 4 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 40-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 93 · LANDS ON BAR 94 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

182 bars across 9 sections: 105 keep time, 13 are fills, 44 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 59-72.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART S7
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBFS7IS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Back To Me?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Back To Me 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

182 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Me?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 33, 40, 41, 81, 93 and 4 more.

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