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Because I Want You · Placebo

EXERCISE 1 OF 19
Groove A -- Chorus 2
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART C
CHORUS 4
PART S9
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesACS9S8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Because I Want You on drums

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.

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
47/100

snare through bars 1-16, toms through bars 17-20, snare through bars 21-32, toms through bars 33-40, snare through bars 41-72 and toms through bars 73-88, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |g---g---g---g---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
HF |x---x---x---x---|
Because I Want You -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus 2 and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 28-89 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 92-121 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED