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You Know Me Too Well · Nothing But Thieves

EXERCISE 21 OF 22
Run I1 · Outro 2 (bars 110-121)
120 / 121 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCAIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play You Know Me Too Well on drums

121 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 3:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
40/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-32, hi-hat through bars 33-48 and ride through bars 49-121.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-16 and 33-47 -- 25.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    1                2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x-------|
SD |--------x-----x-|--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------|--x-x-----------|
You Know Me Too Well -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 31, 32, 48, 63, 64, 104 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- A, C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 14-49 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 47-113 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is You Know Me Too Well?

136 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 Know Me Too Well hard to play on drums?

40 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 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 Know Me Too Well?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 31, 32, 48, 63, 64, 104 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED