If I Ever Get You Back · Morgan Wallen

100 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 27 more places -- 57% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
IF I EVER GET YOU BACK · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 5, 29, 33, 37, 41, 45 and 8 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 93 · LANDS ON BAR 94
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 3 sections: 83 keep time and 15 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-28.

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

Questions

What BPM is If I Ever Get You Back?

140 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 If I Ever Get You Back hard to play on drums?

52 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 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 If I Ever Get You Back?

4 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 5, 29, 33, 37, 41, 45 and 8 more.

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