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I Go Back · Kenny Chesney

I Go Back · Kenny Chesney
EXERCISE 11 OF 21
Groove J -- Outro 2
83 / 109 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
PART A
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBAJS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Go Back on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
52/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-21, hi-hat through bars 22-77, silence through bars 78-83, hi-hat through bars 84-89 and ride through bars 90-109.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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, A -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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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