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Something About You · Eyedress

EXERCISE 5 OF 10
Groove E
69 / 81 BARS COVERED
0 / 10 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Something About You on drums

81 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 2:25 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
2:25
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-28, ride through bars 29-35, hi-hat through bars 36-60, ride through bars 61-66 and hi-hat through bars 67-81.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-28, 37-60 and 67, and 1 more place -- 77% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|
Something About You -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 9 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Something About You?

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

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 2:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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