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Everybody Needs Somebody To Love · The Blues Brothers

EXERCISE 4 OF 13
Groove D -- Outro
140 / 158 BARS COVERED
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CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Everybody Needs Somebody To Love on drums

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.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
60/100

hi-hat through bars 2-154 and toms through bars 155-158.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Everybody Needs Somebody To Love -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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