Backwards Pumpkin Song · Dance Gavin Dance

157 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 4:02 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 57-59, 61-63 and 65-67, and 7 more places -- 24.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 156 BPM
BACKWARDS PUMPKIN SONG · BAR 57
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 6, 13, 16 and 31 more.

LOOP · 156 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

157 bars across 11 sections: 100 keep time, 37 are fills and 8 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 76-89.

PART B
PART J
PART O
CHORUS
PART Y
CHORUS 2
PART AB
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesTBYADJ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Backwards Pumpkin Song?

156 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 Backwards Pumpkin Song hard to play on drums?

56 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 14 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Backwards Pumpkin Song?

14 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 6, 13, 16 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED
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