Give Me One Reason (best) · Tracy Chapman

89 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 3:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieCountry / Folk90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-38, 40 and 58-61, and 2 more places -- 57.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 94 BPM
GIVE ME ONE REASON (BEST) · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 39, 41 and 88.

LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 10 sections: 71 keep time, 3 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-38.

VERSE
VERSE 2
VERSE 3
OUTRO
VERSE 4
6 groovesCIEFG+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Give Me One Reason (best)?

94 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 One Reason (best) hard to play on drums?

64 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 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 One Reason (best)?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 39, 41 and 88.

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