Gotta Be Somebody · Nickelback

115 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 3:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-36, 38-44 and 59-65, and 4 more places -- 55.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 116 BPM
GOTTA BE SOMEBODY · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 29, 37, 45, 57, 58, 66 and 6 more.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
LOOP · 116 BPM
BARS 57-58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 7 sections: 38 keep time, 12 are fills, 40 are stops and 23 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-24.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEBS1S6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gotta Be Somebody?

116 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 Gotta Be Somebody hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 4 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Gotta Be Somebody?

9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 29, 37, 45, 57, 58, 66 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED
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