Because Of You · Ne-Yo

120 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:22 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Funk / SoulHip Hop / Reggae90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
82/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 91% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-92 and 102-120 -- 90.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BECAUSE OF YOU · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 3 sections: 118 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-92.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Because Of You?

110 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 Of You hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 4:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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