Not For You · Pearl Jam

167 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
5:30
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-31 and 41-55 -- 28% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
NOT FOR YOU · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 78, 110, 126, 142 and 150.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 78 · LANDS ON BAR 79 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 126 · LANDS ON BAR 127 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

167 bars across 14 sections: 144 keep time, 5 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-31.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART C
PART H
PART J
PART O
10 groovesACJHD+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Not For You?

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 Not For You hard to play on drums?

42 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

167 bars, about 5:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 9 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 Not For You?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 78, 110, 126, 142 and 150.

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