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Backstabber · Dystopia

EXERCISE 1 OF 52
Groove L -- Chorus
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0 / 52 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART Q
PART T
PART Z
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesLQBDT+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Backstabber on drums

83 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 2:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
2:09
DIFFICULTY
55/100

snare through bar 1, ride through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-19, toms through bars 20-21, ride through bars 22-38 and hi-hat through bars 39-54, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22, 24 and 26, and 13 more places -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x---------|
Backstabber -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 13, 20, 21, 40, 42 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- L, M -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 10-22 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and Part T -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Backstabber?

155 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 Backstabber hard to play on drums?

55 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 2:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 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 Backstabber?

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 13, 20, 21, 40, 42 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED