What You Are · Audioslave

89 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 3:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-24 and 33-48 -- 44.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 92 BPM
WHAT YOU ARE · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 72 and 84.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 7 sections: 80 keep time, 2 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-24.

CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesABCDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is What You Are?

92 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 You Are hard to play on drums?

54 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in What You Are?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 72 and 84.

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