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You Really Got Me · Van Halen

EXERCISE 28 OF 36
Run M1 · Part M (bars 59-73)
79 / 89 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play You Really Got Me on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
2:33
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, snare through bars 18-29, hi-hat through bars 30-37 and snare through bars 38-44, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-------x-----|
You Really Got Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 17, 21, 29, 37, 41, 49 and 6 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 -- C, E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Bars 8-28 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 55-74 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 59-87 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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