Be Yourself · Audioslave

132 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 4:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-40, 62-68 and 70-72, and 4 more places -- 27.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BE YOURSELF · BAR 35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 32, 33, 41, 69, 77, 89 and 8 more.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BARS 32-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 89 · LANDS ON BAR 90 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BARS 102-107 · LANDS ON BAR 108 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 9 sections: 99 keep time, 14 are fills, 2 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-31.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDBXGO+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Be Yourself?

116 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 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 4:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Be Yourself?

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 32, 33, 41, 69, 77, 89 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
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