I Want Candy · Bow Wow Wow

73 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:15 of playing, on crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopPunk90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 69% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-21, 23-37 and 39-42, and 3 more places -- 68.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 90 BPM
I WANT CANDY · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 1, 2, 22, 38, 43, 60 and 1 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 4 sections: 59 keep time, 7 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-37.

PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Want Candy?

90 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 Candy hard to play on drums?

57 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in I Want Candy?

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 1, 2, 22, 38, 43, 60 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED
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