The Remedy (I Won't Worry) · Jason Mraz

100 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 4:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 25-31 and 33-35, and 6 more places -- 39% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 94 BPM
THE REMEDY (I WON'T WORRY) · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 8, 24, 32, 36, 52, 60 and 6 more.

LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 9 sections: 80 keep time and 12 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-23.

PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBDEJAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Remedy (I Won't Worry)?

94 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 The Remedy (I Won't Worry) hard to play on drums?

55 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 The Remedy (I Won't Worry)?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 8, 24, 32, 36, 52, 60 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED
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