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Down Boy · moe.

Down Boy · moe.
EXERCISE 1 OF 44
Groove L -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Down Boy on drums

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.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
154 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
280
LENGTH
7:16
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-17, hi-hat through bars 18-91, snare through bars 92-100, silence through bars 101-115, hi-hat through bars 116-123 and snare through bars 124-131, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    168
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x---------x-|
Down Boy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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, C -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 74-116 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 115-134 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 140-173 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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