Glad You Came · The Wanted

68 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 2:26 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
2:26
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 29-43 and 68 -- 36.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 112 BPM
GLAD YOU CAME · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

68 bars across 8 sections: 59 keep time and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 53-68.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDBCS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Glad You Came?

112 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 Glad You Came hard to play on drums?

48 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 2:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED
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