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You May Be Right · Billy Joel

EXERCISE 23 OF 27
Groove N -- Outro 2 (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 27 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesECNAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play You May Be Right on drums

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.

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
50/100

toms through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-134 and toms through bars 135-152.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|
You May Be Right -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- E, C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 54-122 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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