Just What I Needed · The Cars

117 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:37 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 25-27 and 29-31, and 16 more places -- 42.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 128 BPM
JUST WHAT I NEEDED · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 24, 92, 102 and 117.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 92 · LANDS ON BAR 93 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 10 sections: 101 keep time and 4 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-52.

PART A
CHORUS
PART E
PART H
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBEAHIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Just What I Needed?

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 Just What I Needed hard to play on drums?

58 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Just What I Needed?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 24, 92, 102 and 117.

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