A Little Less Sixteen Candles, A Little More "Touch Me" · Fall Out Boy

89 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 2:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 24, and 9 more places -- 37.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 132 BPM
A LITTLE LESS SIXTEEN CANDLES, A LITTLE MORE "TOUCH ME" · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 5, 21, 25, 29, 37, 45 and 7 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 10 sections: 59 keep time, 14 are fills, 5 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 82-88.

CHORUS
PART S2
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBVXNI+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Little Less Sixteen Candles, A Little More "Touch Me"?

132 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 A Little Less Sixteen Candles, A Little More "Touch Me" 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 2:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in A Little Less Sixteen Candles, A Little More "Touch Me"?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 5, 21, 25, 29, 37, 45 and 7 more.

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