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Backbone (E standard) · Gojira

EXERCISE 21 OF 62
Join Part D to Part L (bars 51-53)
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0 / 62 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART L
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART L
PART O
PART O
PART T
PART D
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesBDOLW+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 12
LINK · 10
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Backbone (E standard) on drums

193 bars at 181 BPM -- fast, and 4:16 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
181 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
193
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
80/100

snare through bars 3-49, hi-hat through bars 50-52, ride through bars 53-60, hi-hat through bars 61-76, ride through bars 77-85 and snare through bars 86-93, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9, 15-21 and 27-33, and 13 more places -- 26.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    3
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-------x---------------x-------|
Backbone (E standard) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 22, 24, 26 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- B, O -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 3-18 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 41-53 -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and Part L -- 2 exercises, about 10 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part L and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Backbone (E standard)?

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

Is Backbone (E standard) hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

193 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Backbone (E standard)?

9 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 22, 24, 26 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 193 BARS ANALYSED