Just Give Me A Reason · Pink

73 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:04 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Pop90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 96% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-12, 14-47 and 50-72 -- 95.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 95 BPM
JUST GIVE ME A REASON · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 73.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 73
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 4 sections: 67 keep time, 1 is a fill and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-48.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
3 groovesBS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Just Give Me A Reason?

95 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 Just Give Me A Reason hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Just Give Me A Reason?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 73.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED
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