Addicted · Simple Plan

88 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 141 BPM, 3:45 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkPop120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
141 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3, 5 and 17-23, and 4 more places -- 37.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 141 BPM
ADDICTED · BARS 17-18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 6, 15, 16, 24, 27 and 7 more.

LOOP · 141 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 141 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 141 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 141 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 9 sections: 32 keep time, 13 are fills, 2 are stops and 37 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-14.

PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART S7
BREAK
5 groovesS9BFS7S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Addicted?

141 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Addicted hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Addicted?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 6, 15, 16, 24, 27 and 7 more.

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