Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming · Deep Purple

147 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 7:10 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockProgressiveUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
7:10
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-10, 12 and 14-15, and 9 more places -- 14.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 82 BPM
SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE SCREAMING · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 20, 24, 57, 61, 72, 73 and 10 more.

LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 82 BPM
BARS 72-74 · LANDS ON BAR 75 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 82 BPM
BARS 77-78 · LANDS ON BAR 79 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

147 bars across 14 sections: 110 keep time, 16 are fills, 1 is a stop and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 112-145.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART Q
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDAAHCQ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming?

82 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 Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming hard to play on drums?

61 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 7:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming?

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 20, 24, 57, 61, 72, 73 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED
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