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I Want You To Want Me · Letters To Cleo

I Want You To Want Me · Letters To Cleo
EXERCISE 1 OF 21
Groove D -- Chorus
0 / 90 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 49 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
PART B
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDCGBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Want You To Want Me on drums

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

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
61/100

snare through bars 1-5 and hi-hat through bars 6-90.

The beat

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.

    10
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
SD |---x-----x-----x-----x--|
BD |x-----------x-----------|
I Want You To Want Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-23 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Bars 30-62 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 70-86 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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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