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Talking Backwards · Real Estate

Talking Backwards · Real Estate
EXERCISE 17 OF 40
Groove J -- Outro
92 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, PART L, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Talking Backwards on drums

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

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
52/100

hi-hat through bars 3-28, snare through bars 29-36, hi-hat through bars 37-52, snare through bars 53-54, hi-hat through bars 55-80 and snare through bars 81-84, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Talking Backwards -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- D, L -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-30 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 26-57 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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