You Wreck Me AI · Tom Petty

132 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 3:16 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 80% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-24, 28-55 and 57-64, and 4 more places -- 79.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 162 BPM
YOU WRECK ME AI · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 72, 108 and 132.

LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 132
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 6 sections: 119 keep time, 3 are fills and 6 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 28-64.

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

Questions

What BPM is You Wreck Me AI?

162 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 You Wreck Me AI hard to play on drums?

50 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?

132 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in You Wreck Me AI?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 72, 108 and 132.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
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