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Back To The Worms · Cryptopsy

EXERCISE 4 OF 92
Groove B -- Part B (a two-bar phrase)
22 / 134 BARS COVERED
0 / 92 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
PART F
PART L
PART S
PART B
PART AB
CHORUS
PART AP
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesAGBAPABL+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 28
LAND · 28
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Back To The Worms on drums

134 bars of 4/4 at 153 BPM, about 3:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
153 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
79/100

toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-43, ride through bars 44-51, hi-hat through bars 52-81 and kick and crashes through bars 82-85, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 66-68, 70-72 and 74-76, and 4 more places -- 16.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    66
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Back To The Worms -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

28 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 and 41 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 63 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 -- AG -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AP -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part F -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part L -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Back To The Worms?

153 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 The Worms hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 18 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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 To The Worms?

28 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED