You May Be Right · Billy Joel

152 bars of 4/4 at 147 BPM, about 4:08 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Jazz / BluesPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-21, 24-29 and 31-37, and 4 more places -- 39.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 147 BPM
YOU MAY BE RIGHT · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 6, 22, 50, 52, 56 and 6 more.

LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

152 bars across 8 sections: 115 keep time, 12 are fills, 15 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 136-152.

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

Questions

What BPM is You May Be Right?

147 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?

50 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?

152 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 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?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 6, 22, 50, 52, 56 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED
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