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Boys Will Be Bugs · Cavetown

EXERCISE 13 OF 15
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 114-116)
106 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 15 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBS1IDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Boys Will Be Bugs on drums

120 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 5:35 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
5:35
DIFFICULTY
36/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-29, kick and crashes through bars 30-31, hi-hat through bars 32-59, snare through bars 60-62 and hi-hat through bars 63-69, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-29, 32-35 and 38-51, and 7 more places -- 63.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 61 and 62.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part I and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Boys Will Be Bugs?

86 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 Boys Will Be Bugs hard to play on drums?

36 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 5:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Boys Will Be Bugs?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 61 and 62.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED