I Got Friends · Warmduscher

49 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 1:52 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
49
LENGTH
1:52
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 18-20, and 5 more places -- 35.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 105 BPM
I GOT FRIENDS · BAR 10
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

49 bars across 5 sections: 41 keep time and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-20.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBFDES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Got Friends?

105 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 Got Friends hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

49 bars, about 1:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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.

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