Be Careful with a Fool · Johnny Winter

179 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 105 BPM, 5:07 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Jazz / BluesRock90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
179
LENGTH
5:07
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 77% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 11-16 and 18-28, and 23 more places -- 76.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BE CAREFUL WITH A FOOL · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 8, 9, 17, 31, 53 and 15 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 55-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

179 bars across 4 sections: 151 keep time, 21 are fills, 2 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 152-173.

OUTRO
3 groovesBS4S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Be Careful with a Fool?

105 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Be Careful with a Fool 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

179 bars, about 5:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Be Careful with a Fool?

7 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 8, 9, 17, 31, 53 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 179 BARS ANALYSED
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