(Everything I Do) I Do It For You · Bryan Adams

45 bars, 2:44, at 66 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

RockPopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
66 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
45
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-10 and 13-15, and 1 more place -- 27.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 66 BPM
(EVERYTHING I DO) I DO IT FOR YOU · BAR 5
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 20, 24, 37, 41 and 44.

LOOP · 66 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 66 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 66 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 66 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

45 bars across 6 sections: 31 keep time, 5 are fills, 1 is a stop and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-19.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
VERSE
OUTRO
VERSE 2
5 groovesBGHS1S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is (Everything I Do) I Do It For You?

66 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is (Everything I Do) I Do It For You hard to play on drums?

60 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

45 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 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 (Everything I Do) I Do It For You?

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 20, 24, 37, 41 and 44.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 45 BARS ANALYSED
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