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Give Me One Reason (best) · Tracy Chapman

EXERCISE 1 OF 21
Groove C -- Verse
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VERSE
VERSE 2
VERSE 3
OUTRO
VERSE 4
6 groovesCIEFG+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Give Me One Reason (best) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-41, ride through bars 42-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-89.

The beat

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.

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HH |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x---x-----|
Give Me One Reason (best) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Verse and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Bars 48-54 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED