Something About Us · Daft Punk

96 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:50 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

ElectronicFunk / Soul90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 73% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 18-20, and 18 more places -- 73.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 100 BPM
SOMETHING ABOUT US · BARS 10-11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 4 sections: 86 keep time and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 44-96.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
3 groovesCS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Something About Us?

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 Something About Us hard to play on drums?

40 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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