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Boy · ten56.

Boy · ten56.
EXERCISE 1 OF 62
Groove Q -- Part Q
0 / 137 BARS COVERED
0 / 62 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q
PART H
PART Q
PART AD
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
16 groovesAKQAUADH+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 5
JOIN · 12
LINK · 2
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Boy on drums

137 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 3:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
47/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-40, toms through bars 41-42, snare through bars 43-51, silence through bars 52-55 and toms through bars 56-59, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-35 and 37-40 -- 10.8% 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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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxx-x-xx-xx|
Boy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 15, 16, 21, 24, 25, 36 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M, H -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 2-114 -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Break 2 and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and Part Q -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 23-60 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Boy?

142 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 Boy hard to play on drums?

47 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 15 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 Boy?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 15, 16, 21, 24, 25, 36 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED