I've Always Been Crazy · Waylon Jennings

117 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 4:18 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

Country / Folk90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-34, 36 and 38-52 -- 41.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 108 BPM
I'VE ALWAYS BEEN CRAZY · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 117.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 117
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 5 sections: 109 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-53.

CHORUS
PART F
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBDFEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I've Always Been Crazy?

108 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've Always Been Crazy hard to play on drums?

51 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 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

How many fills are in I've Always Been Crazy?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 117.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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