Give Me One Reason · Tracy Chapman

89 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 3:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieCountry / Folk90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-13, 15-16 and 31-38, and 3 more places -- 28.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 96 BPM
GIVE ME ONE REASON · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 5, 17, 29, 39, 65, 77 and 1 more.

LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 7 sections: 68 keep time, 7 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-52.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDNKGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Give Me One Reason?

96 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 hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 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 One Reason?

7 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 5, 17, 29, 39, 65, 77 and 1 more.

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