U Should Not Be Doing That · Amyl And The Sniffers

104 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 3:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-9 and 11-13, and 9 more places -- 25.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 123 BPM
U SHOULD NOT BE DOING THAT · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 34, 42, 66 and 89.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 11 sections: 80 keep time, 7 are fills, 3 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-17.

PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART B
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFCKEB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is U Should Not Be Doing That?

123 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 U Should Not Be Doing That hard to play on drums?

56 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?

104 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, 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 U Should Not Be Doing That?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 34, 42, 66 and 89.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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