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Is There Something I Should Know · Duran Duran

EXERCISE 28 OF 31
Fill at bar 121 (a small one)
122 / 126 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
PART A
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART G
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBDJGA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Is There Something I Should Know on drums

126 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 4:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
47/100

hi-hat through bars 1-103, silence through bars 104-112 and hi-hat through bars 113-126.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 25, and 5 more places -- 44.6% 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
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|
Is There Something I Should Know -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 16, 24, 56, 64, 113 and 121.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- B, D -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 43-80 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 102-115 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Is There Something I Should Know?

118 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 Is There Something I Should Know hard to play on drums?

47 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Is There Something I Should Know?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 16, 24, 56, 64, 113 and 121.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED