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I Wanna Be... · SPYAIR

I Wanna Be... · SPYAIR
EXERCISE 1 OF 39
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
5 groovesBDFS6S7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Wanna Be... on drums

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.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
58/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-47, toms through bars 48-49, hi-hat through bars 50-63, toms through bars 64-65 and hi-hat through bars 66-87, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x--x------|
I Wanna Be... -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 23-69 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 86-93 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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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