You Might Think · The Cars

101 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 3:01 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 65% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-10, 12-19 and 24-30, and 8 more places -- 65% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 134 BPM
YOU MIGHT THINK · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 11, 23, 31, 32, 44, 51 and 6 more.

LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BARS 75-76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 99 · LANDS ON BAR 100
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 3 sections: 82 keep time, 12 are fills, 3 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-22.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesAJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is You Might Think?

134 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 Might Think hard to play on drums?

48 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 You Might Think?

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 11, 23, 31, 32, 44, 51 and 6 more.

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