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Everybody Talks · Neon Trees

Everybody Talks · Neon Trees
EXERCISE 10 OF 25
Groove F
97 / 115 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART B
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCDBJS8+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Everybody Talks on drums

115 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 2:57 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
47/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-20, ride through bars 21-34, hi-hat through bars 35-47, ride through bars 48-61 and hi-hat through bars 62-69, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27, 29-33 and 48-54, and 13 more places -- 42.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x-----|
Everybody Talks -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 34, 61, 77, 98 and 114.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- C, D -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 62-115 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Everybody Talks?

155 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 Talks hard to play on drums?

47 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 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 Everybody Talks?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 34, 61, 77, 98 and 114.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED