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I Just Died in Your Arms Tonight · Cutting Crew

EXERCISE 3 OF 13
Groove F
99 / 139 BARS COVERED
0 / 13 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBS1S5HFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Just Died in Your Arms Tonight on drums

139 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-17, hi-hat through bars 18-108, silence through bars 109-115 and hi-hat through bars 116-139.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-36, 38-54 and 56-74, and 7 more places -- 84.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
I Just Died in Your Arms Tonight -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 107 and 139.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is I Just Died in Your Arms Tonight?

120 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 Died in Your Arms Tonight 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Just Died in Your Arms Tonight?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 107 and 139.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED