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Gotta Be Somebody · Nickelback

EXERCISE 15 OF 29
2-bar fill at bar 57
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0 / 29 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
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
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gotta Be Somebody on drums

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.

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
38/100

silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-91, silence through bars 92-98 and hi-hat through bars 99-115.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Gotta Be Somebody -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

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 -- E, B -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 9 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus 2 -- 10 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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