Spending My Time · Roxette

94 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 4:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

PopElectronicUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 77% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-23, 26-34 and 36-41, and 10 more places -- 76.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 87 BPM
SPENDING MY TIME · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 25, 35, 43, 53, 57, 61 and 3 more.

LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

94 bars across 4 sections: 70 keep time, 9 are fills, 2 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 62-76.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
4 groovesBS1AS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Spending My Time?

87 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 Spending My Time 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 4:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Spending My Time?

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 25, 35, 43, 53, 57, 61 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED
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