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Boss of Me (Theme From Malcom in the Middle) · They Might Be Giants

EXERCISE 13 OF 20
Groove L
53 / 73 BARS COVERED
0 / 20 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesDBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Boss of Me (Theme From Malcom in the Middle) on drums

73 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 2:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
78/100

snare through bar 1, ride through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-21, ride through bars 22-25, hi-hat through bars 26-39 and ride through bars 40-43, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-12, 26-30 and 44-51, and 2 more places -- 45.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    7
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----x---x-----x-------|
Boss of Me (Theme From Malcom in the Middle) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 5, 13, 17, 25, 31, 43 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 6 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Boss of Me (Theme From Malcom in the Middle)?

100 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Boss of Me (Theme From Malcom in the Middle) hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 8 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Boss of Me (Theme From Malcom in the Middle)?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 5, 13, 17, 25, 31, 43 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED