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.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

88 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

77

LENGTH

3:29

DIFFICULTY

65/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-23, silence through bars 24-57 and hi-hat through bars 58-77.

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.

    3                4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------x-----|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x---------|
SD |----x---x---x---|x---x--gxx--x--g|
FT |----------------|-------------xx-|
BD |x-xx--xx--xx--xx|--xx--x-x-x-x-x-|

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

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- I (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
9. and 1 more sittings after that.