Who Did You Think I Was · John Mayer

133 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 2:53 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Jazz / BluesAlternative / Indie150 BPM and upFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 98% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-96 and 99-132 -- 98.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 185 BPM
WHO DID YOU THINK I WAS · BARS 17-18
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 2 sections: 114 keep time, 2 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-96.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Who Did You Think I Was?

185 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Who Did You Think I Was hard to play on drums?

46 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 3 exercises over 2 sittings, about 16 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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