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Daddy, Brother, Lover, Little Boy · Mr. Big

EXERCISE 1 OF 40
Groove J -- Chorus
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0 / 40 PASSED · 35 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesJBSWH+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Daddy, Brother, Lover, Little Boy on drums

163 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:37 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
73/100

toms through bars 3-20, snare through bars 21-22, toms through bars 23-38, hi-hat through bars 39-56, snare through bars 57-58 and toms through bars 59-74, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39-45, 75-81 and 119-133, and 3 more places -- 22.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    39
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
Daddy, Brother, Lover, Little Boy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 149, 150, 156, 157, 158, 159 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- J, B -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Bars 35-87 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Daddy, Brother, Lover, Little Boy?

180 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 Daddy, Brother, Lover, Little Boy hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 16 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Daddy, Brother, Lover, Little Boy?

2 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 149, 150, 156, 157, 158, 159 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED