Looking Out for You · JOY AGAIN

147 bars at 202 BPM -- fast, and 2:55 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
202 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 51-66 and 115-130 -- 23.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 202 BPM
LOOKING OUT FOR YOU · BARS 51-52
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 10, 82 and 146.

LOOP · 202 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 202 BPM
BAR 82 · LANDS ON BAR 83
LOOP · 202 BPM
BAR 146 · LANDS ON BAR 147
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

147 bars across 8 sections: 124 keep time, 3 are fills, 1 is a stop and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-48.

COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART H
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
5 groovesGHEDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Looking Out for You?

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

Is Looking Out for You hard to play on drums?

60 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Looking Out for You?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 10, 82 and 146.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED
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