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You Will Know · Stevie Wonder

EXERCISE 4 OF 6
Groove C
104 / 108 BARS COVERED
0 / 6 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play You Will Know on drums

108 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 4:59 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
4:59
DIFFICULTY
39/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-17, 20-31 and 33, and 3 more places -- 94.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----r-------r---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
You Will Know -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 5 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is You Will Know?

85 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 Will Know hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 4:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 28 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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED