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Be Good To Yourself · Frankie Miller

Be Good To Yourself · Frankie Miller
EXERCISE 1 OF 22
Groove C -- Outro
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0 / 22 PASSED · 35 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
1 grooveCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Be Good To Yourself on drums

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

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
42/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-63 and snare through bars 64-66.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Be Good To Yourself -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- C, B -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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