Somethin New · Time Capsule

152 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:35 of it without a break -- on crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-43, 45-46 and 49-51, and 7 more places -- 15.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
SOMETHIN NEW · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 26, 32, 38 and 28 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

152 bars across 13 sections: 83 keep time, 34 are fills, 14 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 59-69.

PART C
PART G
CHORUS
PART N
PART C
PART S10
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesINCDG+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Somethin New?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Somethin New hard to play on drums?

50 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Somethin New?

14 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 26, 32, 38 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED
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