I Want Someone Badly · Jeff Buckley

58 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 140 BPM, 1:20 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Jazz / BluesAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
58
LENGTH
1:20
DIFFICULTY
32/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-7, 9-10 and 13, and 10 more places -- 56.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
I WANT SOMEONE BADLY · BAR 7
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 58.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 58
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

58 bars across 8 sections: 42 keep time, 1 is a fill and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-47.

COUNT-IN
INTRO
PART B
CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCBS1S7S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Want Someone Badly?

140 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Someone Badly hard to play on drums?

32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 5 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

58 bars, about 1:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. 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 Someone Badly?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 58.

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