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I Need You · Lynyrd Skynyrd

EXERCISE 20 OF 47
Groove M
197 / 275 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART C
PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesQDACSFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
JOIN · 9
LINK · 9
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Need You on drums

275 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 6:53 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

48 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
3/4
BARS
275
LENGTH
6:53
DIFFICULTY
48/100

hi-hat through bars 1-40, toms through bars 41-42, hi-hat through bars 43-74, ride through bars 75-105, kick and crashes through bars 106-107 and hi-hat through bars 108-138, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 75-80, 83-88 and 91-96, and 16 more places -- 41.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    75                 76
    1.....2.....3..... 1.....2.....3.....
CC |x-----------------|------------------|
RD |------x-----x-----|x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------------|x-----------------|
BD |x---------------x-|------x-----x-----|
I Need You -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 18, 25, 26, 41, 42, 66 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- Q, C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part A -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 29-51 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 108-188 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is I Need You?

120 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 I Need You hard to play on drums?

48 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

275 bars, about 6:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 I Need You?

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 18, 25, 26, 41, 42, 66 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 275 BARS ANALYSED