Drowning · Backstreet Boys

79 bars, 4:27, at 71 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

PopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
71 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22-24 and 39-41, and 4 more places -- 53.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 71 BPM
DROWNING · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 38 and 64.

LOOP · 71 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 71 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

79 bars across 7 sections: 51 keep time, 2 are fills, 3 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 65-78.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCGS2KS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Drowning?

71 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Drowning hard to play on drums?

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Drowning?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 38 and 64.

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