She Used to Be Mine · Brooks and Dunn

78 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 3:33 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Country / FolkUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25-31 and 33-34, and 6 more places -- 48.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 88 BPM
SHE USED TO BE MINE · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 20 and 32.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

78 bars across 5 sections: 68 keep time, 2 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-77.

PART B
PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesEABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is She Used to Be Mine?

88 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 She Used to Be Mine hard to play on drums?

41 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 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.

How many fills are in She Used to Be Mine?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 20 and 32.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED
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