Show Don't Tell · Rush

143 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 4:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockProgressive90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
4:56
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 21-36 -- 14.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 116 BPM
SHOW DON'T TELL · BARS 21-22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 76, 86, 88, 90, 92, 94 and 4 more.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 86 · LANDS ON BAR 87
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 90 · LANDS ON BAR 91

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

143 bars across 11 sections: 84 keep time, 10 are fills, 8 are stops and 30 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 96-110.

PART A
PART G
PART K
PART G
BREAK
CHORUS
PART Y
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesQS5GYK+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Show Don't Tell?

116 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Show Don't Tell hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 4:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 12 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Show Don't Tell?

10 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 76, 86, 88, 90, 92, 94 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED
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