← SONGS

Bckyrd · Hot Mulligan

EXERCISE 9 OF 31
Fill at bar 7 (a small one)
32 / 63 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART A
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bckyrd on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-6, ride through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-36, toms through bars 37-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-54, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    9                10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-x-o-x-x-x-o-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x----g--x---|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|--x----x--x-----|
Bckyrd -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- D, K -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-13 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 9-21 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
START THE COURSE ↑

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