I Go Back · Kenny Chesney

109 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Country / Folk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-25, 27-36 and 39-41, and 4 more places -- 50.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 125 BPM
I GO BACK · BAR 40
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 37, 45, 59, 89, 97 and 105.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 89 · LANDS ON BAR 90
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 97 · LANDS ON BAR 98
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 105 · LANDS ON BAR 106
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 5 sections: 94 keep time, 6 are fills, 1 is a stop and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-21.

PART A
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBAJS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Go Back?

125 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 I Go Back hard to play on drums?

52 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 I Go Back?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 37, 45, 59, 89, 97 and 105.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
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