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My Back Pages · Bob Dylan

EXERCISE 4 OF 26
Groove B -- Part B
108 / 164 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
CHORUS
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFLIBJ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My Back Pages on drums

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

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
5:28
DIFFICULTY
40/100

snare through bar 1, ride through bars 2-5, snare through bars 6-9, ride through bars 10-21, snare through bars 22-26 and ride through bars 27-38, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----r-------r---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
My Back Pages -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- F, D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 8-79 -- 7 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  4. Bars 76-95 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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