Fatback · Bumblefoot

72 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

ProgressiveRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 2, 15, 30, 32, 34, 36 and 4 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 38-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

72 bars across 6 sections: 43 keep time, 10 are fills and 13 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-14.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFDALFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fatback?

80 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 Fatback hard to play on drums?

56 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Fatback?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 2, 15, 30, 32, 34, 36 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED
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