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Use Me · Bill Withers

EXERCISE 7 OF 11
Groove G
132 / 146 BARS COVERED
0 / 11 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Use Me on drums

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

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

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
62/100

hi-hat through bars 1-144 and ride through bars 145-146.

The beat

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.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------r-----r-|
BD |x---x-----x-----|
Use Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 9 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 -- A, E -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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