u + me = <3 · Olivia Rodrigo

142 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 4:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-10, 33 and 35-49, and 9 more places -- 55.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 142 BPM
U + ME = <3 · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 2, 34, 50, 70, 78, 86 and 8 more.

LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 78 · LANDS ON BAR 79 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

142 bars across 11 sections: 117 keep time, 14 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-32.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCDJOH+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is u + me = <3?

142 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 u + me = <3 hard to play on drums?

58 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 u + me = <3?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 2, 34, 50, 70, 78, 86 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED
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