You May Be Right · Billy Joel

154 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 4:10 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Jazz / BluesPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 65% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-21, 23-29 and 31-37, and 20 more places -- 64.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 148 BPM
YOU MAY BE RIGHT · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 4, 6, 50, 52, 98, 100 and 5 more.

LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 98 · LANDS ON BAR 99 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

154 bars across 9 sections: 130 keep time, 11 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-49.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
5 groovesECSQS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is You May Be Right?

148 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 May Be Right hard to play on drums?

54 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 May Be Right?

9 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 4, 6, 50, 52, 98, 100 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED
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