I Wanna Be... · SPYAIR

118 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 3:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 26-31, and 11 more places -- 49.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 126 BPM
I WANNA BE... · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 17, 24, 25 and 20 more.

LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars across 8 sections: 83 keep time, 26 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-32.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
5 groovesBDFS6S7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Wanna Be...?

126 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 Wanna Be... hard to play on drums?

58 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in I Wanna Be...?

10 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 17, 24, 25 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED
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