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Looking Back On Today · The Ataris

EXERCISE 9 OF 29
Groove G -- Part G
37 / 104 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
PART G
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesS7KNGB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Looking Back On Today on drums

104 bars of 8/4 -- not four -- at 110 BPM, 7:28 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
8/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
7:28
DIFFICULTY
36/100

hi-hat through bars 3-10, ride through bars 11-12, hi-hat through bars 13-18, ride through bars 19-20, hi-hat through bars 21-22 and ride through bars 23-36, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-26, 29 and 31-36 -- 21.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    23
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a7e+a8e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-------x-----x-x-----|
Looking Back On Today -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 14, 27, 28 and 30.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- K, N -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-12 -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part G and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part K -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Looking Back On Today?

110 BPM, in 8/4, 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 Looking Back On Today hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 7:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 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 Looking Back On Today?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 14, 27, 28 and 30.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED