You Know You're Right · Nirvana

153 bars at 169 BPM -- fast, and 3:37 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
169 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41, 43 and 45, and 24 more places -- 17.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 169 BPM
YOU KNOW YOU'RE RIGHT · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 24, 25, 26, 44, 48, 51 and 16 more.

LOOP · 169 BPM
BARS 24-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 169 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 169 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 169 BPM
BARS 51-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

153 bars across 8 sections: 125 keep time, 22 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 133-153.

PART C
CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO 2
6 groovesMCDAS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is You Know You're Right?

169 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is You Know You're Right hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Know You're Right?

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 24, 25, 26, 44, 48, 51 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED
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