Oops I Did It Again · Britney Spears

83 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Pop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 65% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 13-18, and 8 more places -- 64.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 95 BPM
OOPS I DID IT AGAIN · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 6, 8, 20, 24, 30, 31 and 4 more.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 95 BPM
BARS 30-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

83 bars across 7 sections: 57 keep time, 10 are fills, 2 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 60-82.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
BREAK
OUTRO
4 groovesCBS6KFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Oops I Did It Again?

95 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 Oops I Did It Again hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 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 Oops I Did It Again?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 6, 8, 20, 24, 30, 31 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Britney Spears drum parts

EVERY BRITNEY SPEARS CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →