Boondocks · Little Big Town

88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 4:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Country / FolkUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27, 29 and 36-68 -- 51.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BOONDOCKS · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 20, 28 and 69.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 9 sections: 70 keep time, 3 are fills, 1 is a stop and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 37-68.

PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART S7
OUTRO 2
8 groovesEBJCG+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Boondocks?

88 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 Boondocks hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Boondocks?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 20, 28 and 69.

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