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Backbone · Gojira

EXERCISE 16 OF 57
Groove K -- Part K
118 / 193 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART K
PART N
PART K
PART Q
PART N
PART S
CHORUS 4
PART U
PART B
OUTRO 2
11 groovesDBNKU+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
JOIN · 14
LINK · 10
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Backbone 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.

84 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
84/100

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 hi-hat through bars 86-119, and 2 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 11 more places -- 24.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 10, 22, 41, 42, 68, 101 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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, D -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 3-18 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part K and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Backbone?

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 hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 22 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 51 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 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?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 10, 22, 41, 42, 68, 101 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 193 BARS ANALYSED