Down In The Boondocks · Billy Joe Royal

104 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:46 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopRock150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
2:46
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-13 and 28-34, and 3 more places -- 37.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 150 BPM
DOWN IN THE BOONDOCKS · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 104.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 104
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 12 sections: 83 keep time, 1 is a fill and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 82-103.

PART B
BREAK
PART D
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEBDFS3+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Down In The Boondocks?

150 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 In The Boondocks hard to play on drums?

42 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 2:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 4 sittings, about 32 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

How many fills are in Down In The Boondocks?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 104.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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