Start Me Up · The Rolling Stones

108 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 3:32 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 96% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-16 and 18-107 -- 96.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 122 BPM
START ME UP · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 17 and 108.

LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 108
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 2 sections: 104 keep time, 2 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-107.

OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Start Me Up?

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

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 21 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 Start Me Up?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 17 and 108.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED
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