Buy Me A Boat · Chris Janson

55 bars of 4/4 at a walking 77 BPM, 2:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Country / FolkUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
55
LENGTH
2:48
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-14, 16-17 and 20, and 4 more places -- 35.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 77 BPM
BUY ME A BOAT · BAR 13
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 15, 18, 19, 27, 34, 36 and 5 more.

LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 77 BPM
BARS 18-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28
LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

55 bars across 7 sections: 37 keep time, 11 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-10.

PART A
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCAGS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Buy Me A Boat?

77 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 Buy Me A Boat hard to play on drums?

48 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

55 bars, about 2:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Buy Me A Boat?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 15, 18, 19, 27, 34, 36 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 55 BARS ANALYSED
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