Talking Backwards · Real Estate

117 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-6, 9-10 and 13-14, and 10 more places -- 23.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
TALKING BACKWARDS · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 16, 28, 31, 35, 52, 72 and 3 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 96 · LANDS ON BAR 97
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 13 sections: 84 keep time, 9 are fills, 6 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 55-68.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART L
PART B
CHORUS 4
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDLCHJ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Talking Backwards?

150 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 Talking Backwards hard to play on drums?

52 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Talking Backwards?

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 16, 28, 31, 35, 52, 72 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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