Somebody To Love · Jefferson Airplane

96 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:56 of playing, on crash, snare and kick.

RockCountry / Folk120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
17/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 87% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-40 and 43-68, and 6 more places -- 86.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 130 BPM
SOMEBODY TO LOVE · BAR 2
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars: 76 keep time and 20 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-41.

OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Somebody To Love?

130 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 To Love hard to play on drums?

17 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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