The Boys Are Back In Town · Thin Lizzy

180 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:30 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
180
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 24 more places -- 28.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 160 BPM
THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 16, 44, 52, 60, 68, 80 and 7 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

180 bars across 10 sections: 153 keep time and 13 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-40.

PART B
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART A
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDGBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Boys Are Back In Town?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Boys Are Back In Town hard to play on drums?

61 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

180 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 The Boys Are Back In Town?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 16, 44, 52, 60, 68, 80 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 180 BARS ANALYSED
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