Don't Tell Me You Love Me · Night Ranger

193 bars at 177 BPM -- fast, and 4:22 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
177 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
193
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-13, 15-16 and 95-107, and 8 more places -- 34.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 177 BPM
DON'T TELL ME YOU LOVE ME · BAR 151
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 17, 33, 37 and 19 more.

LOOP · 177 BPM
BARS 7-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 177 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 177 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 177 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

193 bars across 16 sections: 113 keep time, 25 are fills, 18 are stops and 25 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 96-108.

PART I
PART E
PART I
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFEIS15H+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Don't Tell Me You Love Me?

177 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Don't Tell Me You Love Me hard to play on drums?

52 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

193 bars, about 4:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 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 Don't Tell Me You Love Me?

9 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 17, 33, 37 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 193 BARS ANALYSED
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