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You Asked Me To · Waylon Jennings

You Asked Me To · Waylon Jennings
EXERCISE 1 OF 33
Groove F -- Chorus
0 / 70 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFS1CIK+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play You Asked Me To on drums

70 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 2:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
40/100

silence through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-52, ride through bars 53-64, hi-hat through bars 65-68 and kick and crashes through bars 69-70.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27, 29-35 and 45-51, and 1 more place -- 40% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
You Asked Me To -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 28, 44, 52, 60, 68 and 69.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- F, K, C -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 32-45 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 41-56 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 55-61 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is You Asked Me To?

98 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 You Asked Me To hard to play on drums?

40 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 2:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 You Asked Me To?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 28, 44, 52, 60, 68 and 69.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 70 BARS ANALYSED