Be Good To Yourself · Journey

145 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 3:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-28, 30-32 and 34-36, and 18 more places -- 31.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 146 BPM
BE GOOD TO YOURSELF · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 25, 57, 81 and 89.

LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

145 bars across 7 sections: 126 keep time, 4 are fills and 6 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 107-145.

PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDHFAJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Be Good To Yourself?

146 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?

57 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Good To Yourself?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 25, 57, 81 and 89.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED
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