Be Good To Yourself · Frankie Miller

66 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 3:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-6, 10-11 and 13-15, and 9 more places -- 53% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BE GOOD TO YOURSELF · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 12, 19, 21, 29, 33, 36 and 4 more.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

66 bars: 48 keep time, 10 are fills and 8 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 39-46.

OUTRO
1 grooveCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Be Good To Yourself?

88 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 Be Good To Yourself hard to play on drums?

42 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Be Good To Yourself?

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 12, 19, 21, 29, 33, 36 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED
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