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Boneyards · Parkway Drive

EXERCISE 3 OF 60
Groove R -- Part R
24 / 96 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART R
PART B
PART H
CHORUS
PART R
PART W
PART S8
PART AG
PART R
PART AC
OUTRO
11 groovesLRBHAG+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Boneyards on drums

96 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 1:50 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
1:50
DIFFICULTY
89/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-22, snare through bars 23-38 and hi-hat through bars 39-42, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-25, 27-29 and 31-33, and 3 more places -- 19.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 22, 34, 42 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- L -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Boneyards?

210 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Boneyards hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 1:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 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 Boneyards?

13 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 22, 34, 42 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED