You Fool No One · Deep Purple

156 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 4:46 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 21-23, and 15 more places -- 49.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 131 BPM
YOU FOOL NO ONE · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 12, 24, 28, 37, 38, 50 and 9 more.

LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 131 BPM
BARS 37-38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

156 bars across 12 sections: 107 keep time, 15 are fills, 15 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 75-97.

PART A
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART N
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEHANS9+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is You Fool No One?

131 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 Fool No One hard to play on drums?

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 4:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in You Fool No One?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 12, 24, 28, 37, 38, 50 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED
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