kiss me · Ariana Grande

68 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 2:43 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
2:43
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-36, 45-51 and 68 -- 37.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
KISS ME · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 52.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

68 bars across 7 sections: 58 keep time, 1 is a fill and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-36.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART D
CHORUS
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEICFD+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is kiss me?

100 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 kiss me hard to play on drums?

51 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 2:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in kiss me?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 52.

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