Do You Read Me · Rory Gallagher

130 bars of 4/4 at a walking 99 BPM, 5:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
99 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
5:15
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 14-15, 18 and 20-23, and 19 more places -- 46.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 99 BPM
DO YOU READ ME · BARS 14-15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 11, 17, 19, 40, 41, 44 and 7 more.

LOOP · 99 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 99 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 99 BPM
BARS 40-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 6 sections: 108 keep time, 13 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 81-119.

PART B
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesGMBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Do You Read Me?

99 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 Do You Read Me hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 5:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Do You Read Me?

3 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 11, 17, 19, 40, 41, 44 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED
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