Somethin' 'Bout A Woman · Thomas Rhett ft. Teddy Swims

89 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 3:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 84% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-12, 14-24 and 26-32, and 4 more places -- 84.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 105 BPM
SOMETHIN' 'BOUT A WOMAN · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 33 and 34.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 33-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 2 sections: 86 keep time, 2 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 35-89.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Somethin' 'Bout A Woman?

105 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 Somethin' 'Bout A Woman hard to play on drums?

44 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 4 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Somethin' 'Bout A Woman?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 33 and 34.

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