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Something Good Coming · Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

EXERCISE 1 OF 13
Groove C -- Chorus
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PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCADS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Something Good Coming on drums

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

24 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
4:01
DIFFICULTY
24/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, silence through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-24 and kick and crashes through bars 25-28, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-----x-----|
Something Good Coming -- 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 12 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 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 37-57 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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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