Come Talk To Me · Peter Gabriel

180 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 7:12 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
180
LENGTH
7:12
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-16, 109-112 and 125-128, and 3 more places -- 20.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
COME TALK TO ME · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

180 bars across 36 sections: 138 keep time and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 155-168.

PART N
CHORUS 5
21 groovesDKNSC+16Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Come Talk To Me?

100 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 Come Talk To Me hard to play on drums?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

180 bars, about 7:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 75 exercises over 20 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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