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Looking Out for You · JOY AGAIN

Looking Out for You · JOY AGAIN
EXERCISE 25 OF 27
Play the whole song with the record
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COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART H
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGHEDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Looking Out for You on drums

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.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
202 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-10, ride through bars 11-18, hi-hat through bars 19-34, ride through bars 35-50, snare through bars 51-66 and ride through bars 67-82, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    51               52
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|--x-----x-------|
Looking Out for You -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- H, D -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 15-53 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 73-143 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
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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