Lit like Justin Timberlake in 2005 · Means to an End

94 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 2:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
2:14
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 29-40 -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 168 BPM
LIT LIKE JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE IN 2005 · BARS 29-30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 5, 6, 10, 16 and 20.

LOOP · 168 BPM
BARS 5-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

94 bars across 14 sections: 62 keep time, 5 are fills, 5 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-56.

PART B
PART G
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART S9
PART P
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesJNUTP+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lit like Justin Timberlake in 2005?

168 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Lit like Justin Timberlake in 2005 hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 2:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Lit like Justin Timberlake in 2005?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 5, 6, 10, 16 and 20.

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