Dirt On My Boots · Jon Pardi

74 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-31, 34-40 and 42-45, and 3 more places -- 49.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 90 BPM
DIRT ON MY BOOTS · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 49 and 74.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 74
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

74 bars across 12 sections: 61 keep time, 2 are fills and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-20.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDCEGS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dirt On My Boots?

90 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 Dirt On My Boots 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Dirt On My Boots?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 49 and 74.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED
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