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Fuck You · CeeLo Green

Fuck You · CeeLo Green
EXERCISE 1 OF 28
Groove E -- Chorus
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PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
6 groovesECGS7S8+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fuck You on drums

102 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-69, ride through bars 70-71, silence through bars 72-76, ride through bars 77-81 and hi-hat through bars 82-102.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-36, 57-68 and 82-83, and 1 more place -- 47.3% 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---|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Fuck You -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 5, 21, 37, 53, 69, 77 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- E, C -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 55-78 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Fuck You?

128 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 Fuck You hard to play on drums?

53 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?

102 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 5 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Fuck You?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 5, 21, 37, 53, 69, 77 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED