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Backwater · Meat Puppets

Backwater · Meat Puppets
EXERCISE 1 OF 33
Groove B -- Chorus
0 / 100 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 46 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART G
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBGLIS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Backwater on drums

100 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 3:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
52/100

hi-hat through bars 2-41, ride through bars 42-47, hi-hat through bars 48-51, ride through bars 52-60, hi-hat through bars 61-91 and ride through bars 92-94, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-16 and 20-21, and 12 more places -- 46.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 45, 51, 55, 59, 98 and 99.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- B, E -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 40-85 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and Part L -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 57-90 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 87-100 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Backwater?

113 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 Backwater hard to play on drums?

52 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 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 Backwater?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 45, 51, 55, 59, 98 and 99.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED