Crazy In Love ft. JAY Z · Beyoncé

96 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-10, 13-20 and 29-40, and 3 more places -- 37.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
CRAZY IN LOVE FT. JAY Z · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 11 sections: 81 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 82-96.

PART B
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCFABJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Crazy In Love ft. JAY Z?

100 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 Crazy In Love ft. JAY Z 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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