Thinking Of You (drums polished) · Katy perry

72 bars, 3:46, at 74 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-17, 41-43 and 46, and 4 more places -- 23.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 74 BPM
THINKING OF YOU (DRUMS POLISHED) · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 18 and 30 more.

LOOP · 74 BPM
BARS 18-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 74 BPM
BARS 44-45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

72 bars across 6 sections: 23 keep time, 36 are fills, 3 are stops and 8 are silent.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGDABS1BFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Thinking Of You (drums polished)?

74 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Thinking Of You (drums polished) hard to play on drums?

64 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. 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 (drums polished)?

10 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 18 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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