Something · The Beatles

50 bars, 2:56, at 67 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

RockPopUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
67 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
50
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5-8 and 12, and 5 more places -- 32% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 67 BPM
SOMETHING · BAR 6
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 4, 13, 33, 42 and 48.

LOOP · 67 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 67 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 67 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 67 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

50 bars across 5 sections: 31 keep time, 6 are fills and 6 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-12.

CHORUS
PART I
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCIKPFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Something?

67 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 hard to play on drums?

64 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

50 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Something?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 4, 13, 33, 42 and 48.

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