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BYOB · System of a Down

EXERCISE 1 OF 65
Groove L -- Part L
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0 / 65 PASSED · 32 BARS LIT
PART G
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART L
PART T
PART L
15 groovesILGDR+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 5
JOIN · 17
LINK · 4
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play BYOB on drums

201 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 4:54 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
201
LENGTH
4:54
DIFFICULTY
77/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-111, snare through bars 112-114, hi-hat through bars 115-126, toms through bars 127-130 and hi-hat through bars 131-189, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 40, 42 and 44, and 29 more places -- 16.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    84
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---o-------x-------o-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-------x---------------x-------|
BYOB -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 21, 27, 54, 55, 79, 154 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 60 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 -- L, I -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Bars 20-65 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is BYOB?

164 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is BYOB hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

201 bars, about 4:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 22 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in BYOB?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 21, 27, 54, 55, 79, 154 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 201 BARS ANALYSED