You Got It 1989 · Roy Orbison

100 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3-12 and 20-27, and 7 more places -- 53% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 115 BPM
YOU GOT IT 1989 · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 77.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 77 · LANDS ON BAR 78
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 10 sections: 89 keep time and 2 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-37.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART D
CHORUS 4
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesACDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is You Got It 1989?

115 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 Got It 1989 hard to play on drums?

44 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in You Got It 1989?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 77.

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