I Want You To Want Me · Letters To Cleo

90 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

PopAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-22, 24-29 and 31-33, and 10 more places -- 54.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
I WANT YOU TO WANT ME · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 85 and 90.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 85 · LANDS ON BAR 86
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 90
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 9 sections: 80 keep time, 2 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-56.

PART B
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDCGBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Want You To Want Me?

100 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 To Want Me hard to play on drums?

61 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?

90 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 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.

How many fills are in I Want You To Want Me?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 85 and 90.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED
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