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Somebody Told Me · Motionless In White

EXERCISE 17 OF 59
Groove H
85 / 112 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART G
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Somebody Told Me on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
56/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-13, toms through bars 14-15, snare through bars 16-19, toms through bars 20-23 and snare through bars 24-27, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    40
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--o---o---o---o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
HF |x---x---x---x---|
Somebody Told Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- J, G -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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