Backsteps · Pictures of June

11 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 0:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
11
LENGTH
0:21
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6 and 10-11 -- 54.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 126 BPM
BACKSTEPS · BAR 2
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

11 bars: 9 keep time and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-8.

OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Backsteps?

126 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 Backsteps hard to play on drums?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

11 bars, about 0:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 11 BARS ANALYSED
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