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Backfire · Thrown

EXERCISE 1 OF 36
Groove C -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART O
PART Q
PART V
PART Y
OUTRO
10 groovesCHOS12V+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Backfire on drums

79 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 1:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
1:59
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, snare through bars 21-28, hi-hat through bars 29-36 and snare through bars 37-52, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-7, 9-10 and 21-23, and 2 more places -- 15.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5                6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x-x-|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x-x-|--x-x-----x---x-|
Backfire -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 27, 56, 60, 62, 66, 76 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- C, H -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 30-44 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 37-53 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part V and Part Y -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 59-79 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Backfire?

160 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 Backfire hard to play on drums?

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 1:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Backfire?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 27, 56, 60, 62, 66, 76 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED