Bckyrd · Hot Mulligan

63 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 3:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-11, 17-19 and 33-35 -- 15.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 82 BPM
BCKYRD · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 7, 12, 25, 26, 36, 37 and 11 more.

LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 82 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 82 BPM
BARS 36-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 9 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

63 bars across 9 sections: 30 keep time, 17 are fills, 1 is a stop and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 56-62.

COUNT-IN
PART A
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDKWAG+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bckyrd?

82 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 Bckyrd hard to play on drums?

55 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

63 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 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 Bckyrd?

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 7, 12, 25, 26, 36, 37 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 63 BARS ANALYSED
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