Who Do You Think You Are · Sass Jordan

106 bars of 4/4 at 111 BPM, about 3:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6 and 26, and 8 more places -- 31.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 111 BPM
WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 25, 27, 35 and 12 more.

LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 13 sections: 74 keep time, 18 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 49-56.

CHORUS
PART F
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBIFZR+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Who Do You Think You Are?

111 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 Who Do You Think You Are hard to play on drums?

43 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Who Do You Think You Are?

13 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 25, 27, 35 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED
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