I'm So Excited · Pointer Sisters

153 bars at 184 BPM -- fast, and 3:20 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Funk / SoulPop150 BPM and upFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
184 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 16 and 18-44, and 9 more places -- 47.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 184 BPM
I'M SO EXCITED · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 17, 61, 93, 109, 120, 137 and 2 more.

LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 93 · LANDS ON BAR 94 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

153 bars across 4 sections: 130 keep time, 9 are fills and 9 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 63-89.

CHORUS
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBHCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I'm So Excited?

184 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is I'm So Excited 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in I'm So Excited?

2 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 17, 61, 93, 109, 120, 137 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED
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