You Wreck Me-Drums · Tom Petty

66 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 3:13 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockCountry / FolkUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-12, 16-24 and 40-48 -- 40.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 82 BPM
YOU WRECK ME-DRUMS · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 2, 28, 36, 54 and 66.

LOOP · 82 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 66
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

66 bars across 5 sections: 55 keep time and 6 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-25.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCDBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is You Wreck Me-Drums?

82 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 Wreck Me-Drums hard to play on drums?

64 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 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 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-Drums?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 2, 28, 36, 54 and 66.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED
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