I Knew You Were Trouble · Ismailözgüruzun

139 bars of 4/4 at 154 BPM, about 3:37 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
154 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
28/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 62% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-18, 27-43 and 45, and 31 more places -- 61.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 154 BPM
I KNEW YOU WERE TROUBLE · BAR 45
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 11 sections: 114 keep time, 4 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 109-139.

CHORUS
PART B
PART S4
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesAEBS10S4+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Knew You Were Trouble?

154 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 Knew You Were Trouble hard to play on drums?

28 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 4 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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