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Busted Stuff · Dave Matthews Band

EXERCISE 6 OF 6
Play the whole song with the record
55 / 80 BARS COVERED
0 / 6 PASSED · 80 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, BREAK
OUTRO
BREAK
2 groovesAS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Busted Stuff on drums

80 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 132 BPM, 3:36 of playing on hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
60/100

hi-hat through bars 1-54 and silence through bars 55-80.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 11 more places -- 74.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
HH |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--x-----x-----x--------|
Busted Stuff -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 5 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 -- A -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro and the Break -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Busted Stuff?

132 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Busted Stuff hard to play on drums?

60 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 3 sittings, about 18 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED