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Let Me Entertain You · Robbie Williams

EXERCISE 12 OF 34
Fill at bar 34 (a small one)
92 / 128 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART F
COUNT-IN
PART D
PART F
PART D
PART F
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJDFS1S10+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Let Me Entertain You on drums

128 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
80/100

silence through bars 1-18, ride through bars 19-26, snare through bars 27-34, ride through bars 35-42, snare through bars 43-50 and toms through bars 51-58, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 51-57, 71-77 and 103-109, and 2 more places -- 35.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    51
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x--x-x--x--x|
T1 |-----xxx-----xxx|
FT |xxxxx---xxxxx---|
BD |x--x----x--x--x-|
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Let Me Entertain You -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 18, 26, 34, 58, 66, 78 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- J -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 47-63 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Let Me Entertain You?

125 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 Let Me Entertain You hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, 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 Let Me Entertain You?

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 18, 26, 34, 58, 66, 78 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED