My Back Pages · Bob Dylan

164 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:28 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Country / FolkRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
5:28
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-21, 27-38 and 44-55, and 4 more places -- 51.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
MY BACK PAGES · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 77 and 163.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 77 · LANDS ON BAR 78
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 163 · LANDS ON BAR 164
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

164 bars across 7 sections: 148 keep time, 2 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-74.

CHORUS
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFLIBJ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Back Pages?

120 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 My Back Pages hard to play on drums?

40 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 5:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in My Back Pages?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 77 and 163.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED
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