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Look At Yourself · Uriah Heep

Look At Yourself · Uriah Heep
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EXERCISE 5 OF 85
Groove A -- Part A
55 / 204 BARS COVERED
0 / 85 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
PART E
PART M
PART O
PART X
PART AF
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
17 groovesARAKHLAF+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 24
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 7
JOIN · 20
LINK · 4
SECTION · 17
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Look At Yourself on drums

204 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 5:16 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
204
LENGTH
5:16
DIFFICULTY
97/100

toms through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-26, toms through bars 27-37, ride through bars 38-41, hi-hat through bars 42-55 and toms through bars 56-66, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38-41, 67-70 and 85-90, and 2 more places -- 9.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    39
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
RD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |x-----g-----x-----g-----x-----g-----x-----g-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
HF |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
Look At Yourself -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 4, 60, 62, 79, 80, 84 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 78 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 -- L -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AK -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AR -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 21 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Look At Yourself?

155 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Look At Yourself hard to play on drums?

97 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

204 bars, about 5:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 78 exercises over 29 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 Look At Yourself?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 4, 60, 62, 79, 80, 84 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 204 BARS ANALYSED