I Want A New Drug · Huey Lewis And The News

130 bars of 4/4 at 111 BPM, about 4:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
4:40
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 69% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-19 and 23, and 16 more places -- 69.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 111 BPM
I WANT A NEW DRUG · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 24, 42, 43, 47, 55, 79 and 5 more.

LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 111 BPM
BARS 42-43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars: 109 keep time, 12 are fills and 9 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 56-78.

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

Questions

What BPM is I Want A New Drug?

111 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 Want A New Drug 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 4:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Want A New Drug?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 24, 42, 43, 47, 55, 79 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED
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