ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lit like Justin Timberlake in 2005 on drums

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.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO: 168 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 94
LENGTH: 2:14
DIFFICULTY: 69/100

ride through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-24, silence through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-44, ride through bars 45-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-52, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    29                                               30
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----------------------o-----------------------|o-----------------------o-----------------------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-----x-x-x-x-----------------x-x-x-x-----|x-x-x-x-----------------------------------------|

Lit like Justin Timberlake in 2005 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 11 minutes.
Through Part B and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Bars 1-12 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Bars 7-17 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Through Part G and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
and 6 more sittings after that.

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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED