Coulda Been Something · Fox N' Vead

74 bars, 3:57, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15, 17 and 35, and 7 more places -- 14.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 75 BPM
COULDA BEEN SOMETHING · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 13, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22 and 25 more.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BARS 13-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

74 bars across 9 sections: 30 keep time, 31 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-12.

PART B
CHORUS
PART M
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFBJUM+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Coulda Been Something?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Coulda Been Something hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Coulda Been Something?

10 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 13, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED
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