Somebody Told Me · Motionless In White

112 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 3:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33, 39-41 and 43-45, and 7 more places -- 25.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 138 BPM
SOMEBODY TOLD ME · BAR 40
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 24, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 and 19 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 138 BPM
BARS 26-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BARS 37-38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 10 sections: 55 keep time, 25 are fills, 14 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-23.

PART S1
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesJGBS1D+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Somebody Told Me?

138 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 Told Me hard to play on drums?

56 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Somebody Told Me?

14 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 24, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED
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