What About Me? · Snarky Puppy

203 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 6:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
203
LENGTH
6:13
DIFFICULTY
96/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 5% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12, 14 and 16, and 7 more places -- 5.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
WHAT ABOUT ME? · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 68 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 62 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 4-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 25-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

203 bars across 15 sections: 107 keep time, 68 are fills, 1 is a stop and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-49.

PART L
PART AN
PART BO
OUTRO 2
15 groovesCZLANBOCU+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is What About Me??

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 What About Me? hard to play on drums?

96 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 82 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

203 bars, about 6:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 22 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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 What About Me??

6 fills to learn, played 68 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 62 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 203 BARS ANALYSED
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