I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend · The Ramones

78 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 2:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PunkRock120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
2:30
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 100% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-78 -- 100% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 125 BPM
I WANNA BE YOUR BOYFRIEND · BAR 1
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

78 bars: 78 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-78.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend?

125 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 Your Boyfriend hard to play on drums?

46 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 2:30 at the written tempo. The course takes it in a single sitting of 3 exercises.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED
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