You Wreck Me · Tom Petty

135 bars at 163 BPM -- fast, and 3:19 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop150 BPM and up
TEMPO
163 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
33/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 93% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-28, 30-56 and 58-72, and 2 more places -- 93.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 163 BPM
YOU WRECK ME · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 29, 57, 73 and 109.

LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars across 4 sections: 127 keep time, 4 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 74-108.

OUTRO
4 groovesCBS4S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is You Wreck Me?

163 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 hard to play on drums?

33 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in You Wreck Me?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 29, 57, 73 and 109.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED
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