I Go to Extremes (Ver. 2) · Billy Joel

152 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 4:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
4:51
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7-9 and 13, and 22 more places -- 38.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 126 BPM
I GO TO EXTREMES (VER. 2) · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 21, 26, 27, 57, 81 and 18 more.

LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 126 BPM
BARS 26-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

152 bars across 10 sections: 106 keep time, 24 are fills and 10 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 98-117.

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

Questions

What BPM is I Go to Extremes (Ver. 2)?

126 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 I Go to Extremes (Ver. 2) hard to play on drums?

57 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 4:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in I Go to Extremes (Ver. 2)?

10 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 21, 26, 27, 57, 81 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED
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