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Grand Theft Autumn (Where Is Your Boy) · Fall Out Boy

EXERCISE 19 OF 45
Join Part M to Part C (bars 37-39)
65 / 108 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M, PART C
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART M
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART P
PART T
OUTRO 2
10 groovesITMS1C+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Grand Theft Autumn (Where Is Your Boy) on drums

108 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-11, snare through bars 12-15, hi-hat through bars 16-23, snare through bars 24-27, toms through bars 28-31 and ride through bars 32-39, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24-27, 38 and 52-55, and 3 more places -- 15.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    24
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |--x---x--x-x--x-|
Grand Theft Autumn (Where Is Your Boy) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 15, 19, 23, 35, 37, 43 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- I, T -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 15-20 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 18-24 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Bars 37-60 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 56-68 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 63-82 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Grand Theft Autumn (Where Is Your Boy)?

135 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 Grand Theft Autumn (Where Is Your Boy) hard to play on drums?

50 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 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 Grand Theft Autumn (Where Is Your Boy)?

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 15, 19, 23, 35, 37, 43 and 13 more.

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