Somebody That I Used To Know · Three Days Grace

98 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:16 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 41-47 and 49-51, and 6 more places -- 45.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
SOMEBODY THAT I USED TO KNOW · BAR 49
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 48, 52, 82, 86, 90, 94 and 1 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 82 · LANDS ON BAR 83
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 90 · LANDS ON BAR 91
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 98
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 9 sections: 59 keep time, 7 are fills, 6 are stops and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-39.

BREAK
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBDS3IS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Somebody That I Used To Know?

120 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 That I Used To Know hard to play on drums?

43 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 4 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Somebody That I Used To Know?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 48, 52, 82, 86, 90, 94 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED
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