Everybody Needs Somebody To Love · The Blues Brothers

158 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 3:14 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Funk / SoulJazz / Blues150 BPM and up
TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 83% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-30 and 32-56, and 7 more places -- 83.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 195 BPM
EVERYBODY NEEDS SOMEBODY TO LOVE · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 156 and 157.

LOOP · 195 BPM
BARS 156-157 · LANDS ON BAR 158 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

158 bars across 4 sections: 149 keep time, 3 are fills, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-96.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Everybody Needs Somebody To Love?

195 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 Everybody Needs Somebody To Love hard to play on drums?

60 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Everybody Needs Somebody To Love?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 156 and 157.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 158 BARS ANALYSED
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