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Want You Back · 5 Seconds Of Summer

EXERCISE 1 OF 20
Groove D -- Chorus 3
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COUNT-IN
PART B
BREAK
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART I
OUTRO
8 groovesDIS1BE+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Want You Back on drums

67 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 2:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-12, silence through bars 13-17, hi-hat through bars 18-29, silence through bars 30-33 and hi-hat through bars 34-41, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-21, 26-29 and 34-41, and 1 more place -- 64% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-xxx-xxx-xxx-xx|
SD |----x-------xx--|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Want You Back -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 17, 25 and 33.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 11-22 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 22-42 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Want You Back?

98 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 Want You Back hard to play on drums?

56 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Want You Back?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 17, 25 and 33.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 67 BARS ANALYSED