I Want It That Way · Backstreet Boys

85 bars of 4/4 at a walking 99 BPM, 3:26 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopFunk / Soul90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
99 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 80% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-19, 21-35 and 37-43, and 3 more places -- 80.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 99 BPM
I WANT IT THAT WAY · BARS 13-14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

85 bars across 5 sections: 63 keep time, 3 are fills, 4 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 61-82.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCS1S3IFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Want It That Way?

99 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 It That Way hard to play on drums?

45 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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