Somebody · Bryan Adams

115 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6 and 8, and 15 more places -- 36.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
SOMEBODY · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 25, 29, 33 and 20 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 6 sections: 84 keep time and 26 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-8.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Somebody?

100 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 Somebody hard to play on drums?

46 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 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 Somebody?

17 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 25, 29, 33 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED
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