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Small Town Boy · Paradise Lost

EXERCISE 10 OF 26
Groove H -- Part H
134 / 160 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART F
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEFHBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Small Town Boy on drums

160 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 5:05 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
5:05
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-14, snare through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-40, snare through bars 41-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-54, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-32, 57-83 and 85-123, and 2 more places -- 69.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o-xx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Small Town Boy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 44, 55 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 13-36 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Bars 37-57 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 41-144 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Small Town Boy?

126 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 Small Town Boy hard to play on drums?

53 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 5:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Small Town Boy?

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 44, 55 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED