You Owe Me · Malcom Todd

53 bars, 3:23, at 62 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
62 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
53
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 97% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-20, 22-33 and 44-53 -- 97.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 62 BPM
YOU OWE ME · BAR 10
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

53 bars across 4 sections: 34 keep time and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-33.

COUNT-IN
VERSE
BREAK
VERSE 2
3 groovesCS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is You Owe Me?

62 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is You Owe Me hard to play on drums?

61 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 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

53 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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