I Want Things to Be Beautiful · devi mccallion

56 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 1:46 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
56
LENGTH
1:46
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-16 and 25-32 -- 42.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 127 BPM
I WANT THINGS TO BE BEAUTIFUL · BAR 1
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

56 bars across 4 sections: 45 keep time and 8 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-16.

PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Want Things to Be Beautiful?

127 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 Things to Be Beautiful hard to play on drums?

55 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

56 bars, about 1:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 4 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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