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Because Of You · Ne-Yo

EXERCISE 6 OF 10
Run A1 · Outro (bars 93-101)
120 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 10 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Because Of You on drums

120 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:22 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
82/100

snare through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-92, snare through bars 93-101 and hi-hat through bars 102-120.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-92 and 102-120 -- 90.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |oxx-x-x-oxx-x-x-|
SD |-xx-xxx--xx-xxx-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
HF |--x---x---x---x-|
Because Of You -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 9 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 -- B -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Because Of You?

110 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 Because Of You hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 4:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED