Kickback · Breakdown

53 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 1:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
53
LENGTH
1:59
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9 and 11-13 -- 22.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
KICKBACK · BAR 4
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 15, 28, 29, 33, 39 and 41.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

53 bars across 6 sections: 32 keep time, 6 are fills, 2 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-14.

CHORUS
PART H
PART N
OUTRO
BREAK
6 groovesBPHS6N+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Kickback?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Kickback hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

53 bars, about 1:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 11 sittings, about 23 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 Kickback?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 15, 28, 29, 33, 39 and 41.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 53 BARS ANALYSED
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