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What Makes You Beautiful · One Direction

EXERCISE 4 OF 11
Groove F
82 / 102 BARS COVERED
0 / 11 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
OUTRO
5 groovesCS6S2S4S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play What Makes You Beautiful on drums

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

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
36/100

silence through bars 1-12, snare through bars 13-34, silence through bars 35-44, snare through bars 45-74 and silence through bars 75-102.

The beat

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.

    5                6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
FT |----------------|x---x---x-------|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|x-----x-x-----x-|
What Makes You Beautiful -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED