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

EXERCISE 1 OF 43
Groove B -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Little Less Sixteen Candles, A Little More "Touch Me" on drums

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.

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
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
52/100

toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-10, silence through bars 11-12, toms through bars 13-14, silence through bars 15-17 and toms through bars 18-21, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-x-----x---|
BD |x-x-------x---x-|
A Little Less Sixteen Candles, A Little More "Touch Me" -- 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 5, 21, 25, 29, 37, 45 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-22 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-39 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 22-46 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 57-77 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED