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Everybody · Backstreet Boys

EXERCISE 1 OF 23
Groove B -- Chorus 2 (a two-bar phrase)
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
7 groovesBEFS1S9+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Everybody on drums

100 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 3:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
69/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-72, silence through bars 73-74, kick and crashes through bars 75-76, silence through bars 77-79 and hi-hat through bars 80-100.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-13, 30-41 and 58-67, and 1 more place -- 46.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    10               11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|x-------x-------|
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-o-o-|x-x-x-x-x-o-o-o-|
SD |--x-x-x---x-x-x-|--x-x-x---x-x-x-|
T2 |------x---x-x-x-|------x---x-x-x-|
BD |x-----x-x-x-----|x-----x-x-------|
Everybody -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 49, 57 and 71.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- B -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 46-68 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Everybody?

107 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 Everybody hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 7 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Everybody?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 49, 57 and 71.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED