I Want You Back · *NSYNC

93 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 3:19 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Pop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 14-20, 22-28 and 30-34, and 11 more places -- 55.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 112 BPM
I WANT YOU BACK · BARS 14-15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

93 bars across 10 sections: 69 keep time, 5 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-34.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART S8
OUTRO
5 groovesDBS1S8S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Want You Back?

112 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 You Back hard to play on drums?

47 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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