Somethin' Stupid · Frank & Nancy Sinatra

67 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 2:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
2:41
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 84% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-5, 12-14 and 16, and 8 more places -- 83.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 100 BPM
SOMETHIN' STUPID · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

67 bars across 14 sections: 37 keep time and 30 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 36-47.

BREAK 2
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
BREAK 5
CHORUS 4
BREAK 6
BREAK 8
OUTRO
9 groovesBCS9S3S13+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Somethin' Stupid?

100 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' Stupid hard to play on drums?

34 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 2:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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