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Bang The Doldrums · Fall Out Boy

EXERCISE 10 OF 44
Groove G -- Part G
81 / 111 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
CHORUS
PART D
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART J
CHORUS 4
PART R
OUTRO
6 groovesBGDJR+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 7
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bang The Doldrums on drums

111 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
74/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-21, snare through bars 22-29, hi-hat through bars 30-49, snare through bars 50-57 and hi-hat through bars 58-66, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 22-28 and 30-36, and 8 more places -- 48.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    22
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x---x-------|
Bang The Doldrums -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 29, 37, 45 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D, J -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 16-50 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 46-75 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and the Chorus 4 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 85-100 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Bang The Doldrums?

128 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Bang The Doldrums hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Bang The Doldrums?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 29, 37, 45 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED