Teenage Dream · Katy Perry

110 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:40 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, floor tom and kick.

PopRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 62% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-42, 59-82 and 87-110 -- 61.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
TEENAGE DREAM · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 26 and 58.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

110 bars across 7 sections: 95 keep time, 2 are fills, 4 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 87-110.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
4 groovesDBS6S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Teenage Dream?

120 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 Teenage Dream hard to play on drums?

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Teenage Dream?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 26 and 58.

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