Call Me Call Me · Yoko Kanno

179 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 4:32 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Rock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
179
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
32/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 6 and 8, and 22 more places -- 16.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 158 BPM
CALL ME CALL ME · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 40, 41, 49, 88, 89, 90 and 10 more.

LOOP · 158 BPM
BARS 40-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BARS 88-90 · LANDS ON BAR 91 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BARS 97-98 · LANDS ON BAR 99 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

179 bars across 21 sections: 116 keep time, 16 are fills, 11 are stops and 24 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-39.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
BREAK
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesAEBS9O+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Call Me Call Me?

158 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Call Me Call Me hard to play on drums?

32 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

179 bars, about 4:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Call Me Call Me?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 40, 41, 49, 88, 89, 90 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 179 BARS ANALYSED
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