I Just Called To Say I Love You · Stevie Wonder

122 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 4:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Funk / SoulPop90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 93% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-19 and 21-35, and 5 more places -- 93.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 116 BPM
I JUST CALLED TO SAY I LOVE YOU · BAR 1
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 122.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 122
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars: 121 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-121.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Just Called To Say I Love You?

116 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 Just Called To Say I Love You hard to play on drums?

44 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 18 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in I Just Called To Say I Love You?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 122.

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