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Be Yourself · Audioslave

EXERCISE 22 OF 29
Join Chorus 2 to Part J (bars 96-98)
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0 / 29 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART J
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART J
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDBFJS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Be Yourself on drums

132 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:24 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-33, hi-hat through bars 34-93, toms through bars 94-115 and hi-hat through bars 116-132.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-40, 62-76 and 78-93, and 1 more place -- 43.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 61, 77, 105, 106, 107 and 131.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- D, B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 38-65 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 94-116 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Be Yourself?

120 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 61, 77, 105, 106, 107 and 131.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED