Give Me A Reason · Three Days Grace

134 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

ElectronicAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-14, 17-21 and 23, and 9 more places -- 19% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 136 BPM
GIVE ME A REASON · BAR 113
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 15, 16, 24, 43, 44, 45 and 20 more.

LOOP · 136 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BARS 43-46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

134 bars across 12 sections: 55 keep time, 26 are fills, 29 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-23.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART H
PART J
PART P
PART R
PART X
PART P
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBAHRPJ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Give Me A Reason?

136 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Give Me A Reason 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 11 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 Give Me A Reason?

15 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 15, 16, 24, 43, 44, 45 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED
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