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Somebody · Bryan Adams

EXERCISE 42 OF 45
Fill at bar 107 (a small one)
114 / 115 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Somebody on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
46/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-25, ride through bars 26-33, hi-hat through bars 34-57, ride through bars 58-65 and hi-hat through bars 66-77, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Somebody -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

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, G -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 22-66 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 62-90 -- 11 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro 2 -- 10 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
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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