You Can Call Me Al · Paul Simon

162 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 5:04 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockCountry / Folk120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
5:04
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 100% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-120 and 123-162 -- 100% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 128 BPM
YOU CAN CALL ME AL · BARS 3-4
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

162 bars across 4 sections: 158 keep time and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-120.

CHORUS
OUTRO
3 groovesBS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is You Can Call Me Al?

128 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 Can Call Me Al hard to play on drums?

47 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 5:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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