I Put a Spell On You · Nina Simone

74 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 90 BPM, 2:29 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Jazz / BluesFunk / Soul90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
2:29
DIFFICULTY
27/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 71% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-11, 17-43 and 54-62, and 1 more place -- 71% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 90 BPM
I PUT A SPELL ON YOU · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

74 bars across 10 sections: 57 keep time, 2 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-45.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBCS1AS7+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Put a Spell On You?

90 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Put a Spell On You hard to play on drums?

27 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 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 2:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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