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Come Talk To Me · Peter Gabriel

Come Talk To Me · Peter Gabriel
EXERCISE 12 OF 76
Groove F -- Part F
88 / 180 BARS COVERED
0 / 76 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
PART F
PART F
PART N
CHORUS 5
21 groovesDKNSC+16Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
RUN · 1
JOIN · 31
LINK · 6
SECTION · 18
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Come Talk To Me on drums

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

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
180
LENGTH
7:12
DIFFICULTY
37/100

silence through bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-12, snare through bars 13-16, toms through bars 17-44, kick and crashes through bars 45-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-68, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x---x---x---|
BD |x--x-------x----|
Come Talk To Me -- 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 75 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 -- D, K, N -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part F and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Bars 39-45 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 180 BARS ANALYSED