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Backwards Pumpkin Song · Dance Gavin Dance

EXERCISE 30 OF 69
Run J1 · Part J (bars 33-44)
119 / 157 BARS COVERED
0 / 69 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 8
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Backwards Pumpkin Song on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-7, hi-hat through bars 8-10, snare through bars 11-12, hi-hat through bars 13-24 and ride through bars 25-56, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    57
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxx--xx----|
Backwards Pumpkin Song -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- T -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Y, AD -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 33-57 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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