I Will · christopher cross

116 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
35/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 61% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-19, 27-28 and 30-36, and 9 more places -- 60.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 128 BPM
I WILL · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 20, 21, 37, 52, 53, 61 and 6 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 20-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 79 · LANDS ON BAR 80

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 6 sections: 86 keep time, 12 are fills, 9 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 98-116.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Will?

128 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 Will hard to play on drums?

35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in I Will?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 20, 21, 37, 52, 53, 61 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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