Somewhere Only We Know · Keane

77 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 3:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePopUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42-46, 48 and 54-56, and 4 more places -- 26.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 86 BPM
SOMEWHERE ONLY WE KNOW · BAR 42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 32, 40, 52, 60, 68, 70 and 1 more.

LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

77 bars across 8 sections: 44 keep time, 7 are fills, 3 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

PART A
PART S2
PART C
PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesHAS2GC+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Somewhere Only We Know?

86 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 Somewhere Only We Know 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Somewhere Only We Know?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 32, 40, 52, 60, 68, 70 and 1 more.

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