I Know Somethin (Bout You) · Alice in Chains

124 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 4:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-43, 69-76 and 79-80, and 4 more places -- 23.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 112 BPM
I KNOW SOMETHIN (BOUT YOU) · BAR 38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28 and 15 more.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 12 sections: 83 keep time, 21 are fills and 8 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 110-123.

PART A
PART E
PART C
CHORUS
PART E
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesLCESAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Know Somethin (Bout You)?

112 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 I Know Somethin (Bout You) hard to play on drums?

56 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 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 I Know Somethin (Bout You)?

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED
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