What Makes You Beautiful · One Direction

102 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 3:19 of playing, on crash, snare, floor tom and kick.

PopElectronic120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 89% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-15, 17-23 and 25-33, and 6 more places -- 88.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 123 BPM
WHAT MAKES YOU BEAUTIFUL · BARS 5-6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 66 and 102.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 7 sections: 87 keep time, 2 are fills and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-34.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
OUTRO
5 groovesCS6S2S4S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is What Makes You Beautiful?

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 What Makes You Beautiful hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in What Makes You Beautiful?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 66 and 102.

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