Something Good Coming · Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

99 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 74 BPM, 4:01 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Under 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
4:01
DIFFICULTY
24/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-16, 21-24 and 29-36, and 3 more places -- 54.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 74 BPM
SOMETHING GOOD COMING · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 10 sections: 79 keep time, 9 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 70-92.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCADS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Something Good Coming?

74 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Something Good Coming hard to play on drums?

24 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 4:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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