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Start Me Up · The Rolling Stones

EXERCISE 7 OF 8
Run C1 · Outro (bars 3-108)
106 / 108 BARS COVERED
0 / 8 PASSED · 106 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
2 groovesCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Start Me Up on drums

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

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

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
45/100

hi-hat through bars 3-108.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Start Me Up -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 5 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 -- C -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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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