Call Me · Blondie

120 bars of 4/4 at 143 BPM, about 3:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopRock120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
89/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 14 more places -- 27.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 143 BPM
CALL ME · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 21, 29, 41, 45, 46, 53 and 10 more.

LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 143 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 143 BPM
BARS 45-46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 143 BPM
BARS 53-54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 12 sections: 88 keep time, 16 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-13.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART E
CHORUS 4
PART E
PART F
OUTRO
5 groovesBFETS12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Call Me?

143 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Call Me hard to play on drums?

89 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 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Call Me?

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 21, 29, 41, 45, 46, 53 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
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