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I Want You Back · *NSYNC

EXERCISE 7 OF 15
Chorus into Part B with the record (bars 31-38)
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0 / 15 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART B
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
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Want You Back on drums

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

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-69, silence through bars 70-72, kick and crashes through bars 73-74, hi-hat through bars 75-91 and kick and crashes through bars 92-93.

The beat

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.

    14               15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-o-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
FT |x---------------|----------------|
BD |x------xx-x---x-|x-------x-------|
I Want You Back -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- D, B -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 31-74 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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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