I Just Got Mad · Malcolm todd

57 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 80 BPM, 2:08 of playing on hi-hat, snare and kick.

Under 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
57
LENGTH
2:08
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 61% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 14 more places -- 61.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 80 BPM
I JUST GOT MAD · BAR 2
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

57 bars across 4 sections: 54 keep time and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-49.

CHORUS
OUTRO
3 groovesBS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Just Got Mad?

80 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Got Mad hard to play on drums?

52 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

57 bars, about 2:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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