Keep Your Hands To Yourself · Georgia Satellites

99 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 68% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-30 and 35, and 3 more places -- 68.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
KEEP YOUR HANDS TO YOURSELF · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 20, 32 and 36.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 5 sections: 87 keep time, 3 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 37-67.

PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBAES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Keep Your Hands To 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 Keep Your Hands To Yourself hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Keep Your Hands To Yourself?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 20, 32 and 36.

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