Call Me Maybe · Carly Rae Jepsen

88 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:56 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopElectronic120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 68% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-30, 45-68 and 77-88 -- 68.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
CALL ME MAYBE · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 9 sections: 72 keep time and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 46-68.

PART B
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
OUTRO
7 groovesEFBS8C+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Call Me Maybe?

120 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 Call Me Maybe hard to play on drums?

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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