You Really Got Me · Van Halen

89 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 2:33 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockElectronic120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
2:33
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-9, 18-20 and 22-24, and 7 more places -- 34.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 138 BPM
YOU REALLY GOT ME · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 17, 21, 29, 37, 41, 49 and 6 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 9 sections: 59 keep time, 12 are fills, 6 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 60-72.

PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCEMKB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is You Really Got Me?

138 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 Really Got Me hard to play on drums?

49 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 2:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 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 Really Got Me?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 17, 21, 29, 37, 41, 49 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED
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