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The Boys Are Back In Town · Thin Lizzy

EXERCISE 16 OF 42
Groove H
161 / 180 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Boys Are Back In Town on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
180
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
61/100

hi-hat through bars 1-96, toms through bars 97-98 and hi-hat through bars 99-180.

The beat

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.

    3
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |---------------------x--|
HH |---x--x--x--x--o--x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |------------x--x-----x--|
The Boys Are Back In Town -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- B, D -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-91 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-42 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 89-110 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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