You Are So Beautiful · Joe Cocker

39 bars, 2:36, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.

RockJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
39
LENGTH
2:36
DIFFICULTY
26/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-29 -- 25.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 60 BPM
YOU ARE SO BEAUTIFUL · BAR 21
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

39 bars across 4 sections: 32 keep time, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-20.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesACBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is You Are So Beautiful?

60 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is You Are So Beautiful hard to play on drums?

26 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

39 bars, about 2:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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