She Keeps Me Up · Nickelback

98 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockPop90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 62% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-20, 22-31 and 33-35, and 3 more places -- 61.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 100 BPM
SHE KEEPS ME UP · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 68 and 84.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 4 sections: 93 keep time, 3 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-67.

CHORUS
PART F
OUTRO
4 groovesAEFS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is She Keeps Me Up?

100 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 She Keeps Me Up hard to play on drums?

45 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in She Keeps Me Up?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 68 and 84.

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