I Just Wanna Shine · Fitz And The Tantrums

79 bars of 4/4 at a walking 91 BPM, 3:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
31/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24-35, 48-57 and 68-73 -- 42.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 91 BPM
I JUST WANNA SHINE · BAR 24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 63.

LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

79 bars across 9 sections: 57 keep time, 1 is a fill and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-35.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFBS1JS6+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Just Wanna Shine?

91 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 Wanna Shine hard to play on drums?

31 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 8 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 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 Wanna Shine?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 63.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED
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