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You May Be Right · Billy Joel

EXERCISE 35 OF 39
Groove S -- Outro
144 / 154 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesECSQS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play You May Be Right on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-134, toms through bars 135-144 and hi-hat through bars 145-154.

The beat

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.

    8
    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

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Bars 38-146 -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and the Chorus 3 -- 6 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Bars 137-145 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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