You Keep Me Hangin' on · Vanilla Fudge

63 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-22, 26-27 and 47 -- 10.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 80 BPM
YOU KEEP ME HANGIN' ON · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 12, 16, 23, 39, 40, 44 and 6 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 39-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

63 bars across 9 sections: 33 keep time, 12 are fills, 1 is a stop and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-28.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART E
PART J
PART P
PART Q
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesWJEQS1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is You Keep Me Hangin' on?

80 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 Keep Me Hangin' on 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

63 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 Keep Me Hangin' on?

9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 12, 16, 23, 39, 40, 44 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 63 BARS ANALYSED
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