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Drowning · Backstreet Boys

EXERCISE 4 OF 21
Join Chorus to Part G (bars 25-27)
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0 / 21 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART G
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Drowning on drums

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.

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
71 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-16 and hi-hat through bars 17-79.

The beat

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.

    41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |--------x-------|
HH |x-o-x-x-x-o-x-x-|
SD |--x-x-----x-x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Drowning -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- C, G -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 27-53 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED