I Just Want To Celebrate · Rare Earth

77 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 3:29 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockFunk / SoulUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-7 and 76 -- 13.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 88 BPM
I JUST WANT TO CELEBRATE · BARS 3-4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 4, 6, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 11 more.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BARS 13-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 88 BPM
BARS 58-67 · LANDS ON BAR 68 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

77 bars across 5 sections: 22 keep time, 18 are fills, 1 is a stop and 33 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 69-77.

PART C
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesS3HS4AACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Just Want To Celebrate?

88 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 Want To Celebrate hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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.

How many fills are in I Just Want To Celebrate?

4 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 4, 6, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED
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