Use Me · Bill Withers

146 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:46 of it without a break -- on ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Funk / SoulPop150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 57 more places -- 57.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 155 BPM
USE ME · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 144, 145 and 146.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 144-146 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

146 bars: 143 keep time and 3 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-143.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Use Me?

155 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Use Me hard to play on drums?

62 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Use Me?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 144, 145 and 146.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED
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