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

EXERCISE 3 OF 6
Groove E
79 / 97 BARS COVERED
0 / 6 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
4 groovesBS3FS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Quit Playin' Games (With My Heart) on drums

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

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
44/100

hi-hat through bars 2-73, silence through bars 74-81 and hi-hat through bars 82-97.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxx-x-x-x-o-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---------|
Quit Playin' Games (With My Heart) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 5 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.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  2. Bars 53-97 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED