Because I Want You · Placebo

121 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 3:11 of playing, on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 76% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 9, and 9 more places -- 76.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 152 BPM
BECAUSE I WANT YOU · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 20.

LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 11 sections: 59 keep time, 1 is a fill, 50 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 73-88.

CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART C
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesACS9S8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Because I Want You?

152 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 Because I Want You hard to play on drums?

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Because I Want You?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 20.

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