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I Put a Spell On You · Nina Simone

I Put a Spell On You · Nina Simone
EXERCISE 11 OF 12
Run A1 · Outro 2 (bars 71-74)
60 / 74 BARS COVERED
0 / 12 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Put a Spell On You on drums

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.

27 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
2:29
DIFFICULTY
27/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-11, ride through bars 12-14, silence through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-43 and ride through bars 44-46, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x-----------|
I Put a Spell On You -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 17-68 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED