You Oughta Know · Alanis Morissette

108 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 4:05 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-24, 42-56 and 83-89 -- 55.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 106 BPM
YOU OUGHTA KNOW · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 28, 57 and 99.

LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 8 sections: 74 keep time, 3 are fills and 25 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-24.

CHORUS
VERSE
PART S3
CHORUS 2
VERSE 2
BREAK
OUTRO
VERSE 3
4 groovesABS6S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is You Oughta Know?

106 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 Oughta Know hard to play on drums?

62 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in You Oughta Know?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 28, 57 and 99.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED
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