You Got Lucky · Tom Petty

103 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:33 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4-5 and 9, and 20 more places -- 44.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 115 BPM
YOU GOT LUCKY · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 22, 46 and 66.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 10 sections: 90 keep time and 3 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 74-86.

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

Questions

What BPM is You Got Lucky?

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 Lucky hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 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 Got Lucky?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 22, 46 and 66.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED
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