Thinking Of You · B'Z

88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 77 BPM, 4:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 21 and 34, and 1 more place -- 9.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 77 BPM
THINKING OF YOU · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 16, 17, 19, 20, 24, 31 and 14 more.

LOOP · 77 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 77 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 12 sections: 46 keep time, 20 are fills, 2 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 79-86.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART G
PART D
PART G
CHORUS
PART J
PART AE
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
10 groovesRGAPCD+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Thinking Of You?

77 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Thinking Of You hard to play on drums?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 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 Thinking Of You?

13 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 16, 17, 19, 20, 24, 31 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED
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