Down Boy · moe.

280 bars of 4/4 at 154 BPM, about 7:16 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
154 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
280
LENGTH
7:16
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 166, 168 and 170, and 26 more places -- 27.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 154 BPM
DOWN BOY · BAR 168
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 42, 115, 181, 197, 213, 261 and 2 more.

LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 115 · LANDS ON BAR 116 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 197 · LANDS ON BAR 198
LOOP · 154 BPM
BAR 213 · LANDS ON BAR 214

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

280 bars across 17 sections: 190 keep time, 8 are fills, 18 are stops and 50 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 231-260.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART C
PART E
PART S7
PART G
CHORUS
PART S14
CHORUS 2
11 groovesLCGES1+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Down Boy?

154 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 Down Boy hard to play on drums?

41 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

280 bars, about 7:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 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 Down Boy?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 42, 115, 181, 197, 213, 261 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 280 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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