According To You · Orianthi

102 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 3:07 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

PopRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-30, 51-58 and 73-80, and 1 more place -- 37.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 131 BPM
ACCORDING TO YOU · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 18, 33, 34, 50, 63, 64 and 3 more.

LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 131 BPM
BARS 33-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 131 BPM
BARS 63-64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 8 sections: 72 keep time, 9 are fills, 8 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 74-92.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
3 groovesECS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is According To You?

131 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 According To You 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in According To You?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 18, 33, 34, 50, 63, 64 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED
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