You Drive Me Crazy v2 · Britney Spears

83 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:19 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

PopJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-6, 8-16 and 20, and 18 more places -- 50.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
YOU DRIVE ME CRAZY V2 · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 18, 25, 38, 75 and 83.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 75 · LANDS ON BAR 76
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 83
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

83 bars across 5 sections: 66 keep time, 5 are fills, 6 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 57-69.

CHORUS
PART K
OUTRO
4 groovesBKES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is You Drive Me Crazy v2?

100 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 You Drive Me Crazy v2 hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in You Drive Me Crazy v2?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 18, 25, 38, 75 and 83.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED
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