Quit Playin' Games (With My Heart) · Backstreet Boys

97 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 3:46 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

PopRock90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 88% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-24 and 26-48, and 8 more places -- 87.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 102 BPM
QUIT PLAYIN' GAMES (WITH MY HEART) · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 5 sections: 83 keep time, 5 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-48.

CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
4 groovesBS3FS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Quit Playin' Games (With My Heart)?

102 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 Quit Playin' Games (With My Heart) hard to play on drums?

44 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 3 sittings, about 17 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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