You Tool · No name yet idk

123 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 35-37, 39-41 and 43-45, and 9 more places -- 29.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 135 BPM
YOU TOOL · BARS 35-36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 13, 15, 34 and 11 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 1-3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 16 sections: 90 keep time, 17 are fills and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 82-97.

PART G
PART I
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART T
OUTRO
13 groovesMITGD+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is You Tool?

135 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 Tool hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Tool?

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 13, 15, 34 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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