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Boondocks · Little Big Town

Boondocks · Little Big Town
EXERCISE 10 OF 24
Join Part C to Chorus (bars 19-21)
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0 / 24 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Boondocks on drums

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.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-3, kick and crashes through bars 4-13, hi-hat through bars 14-70, silence through bars 71-75, snare through bars 76-79 and hi-hat through bars 80-88.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- E, B -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Bars 12-21 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 19-31 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 28-70 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED