Always Somewhere · Scorpions

137 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 4:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockMetal90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 67% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-24, 26-40 and 42-48, and 3 more places -- 66.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 115 BPM
ALWAYS SOMEWHERE · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 9, 25, 49, 65, 69, 72 and 7 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

137 bars across 7 sections: 95 keep time, 13 are fills, 20 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 84-112.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCHAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Always Somewhere?

115 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 Always Somewhere hard to play on drums?

44 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 4:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 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 Always Somewhere?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 9, 25, 49, 65, 69, 72 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED
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