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Somewhere Only We Know · Keane

EXERCISE 7 OF 26
Fill at bar 32
52 / 77 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART C
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Somewhere Only We Know on drums

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.

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
50/100

hi-hat through bars 1-9, silence through bars 10-24, hi-hat through bars 25-40, ride through bars 41-49, silence through bars 50-52 and ride through bars 53-77.

The beat

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.

    42
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x----xx-x-----|
Somewhere Only We Know -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- H, A -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-36 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 33-65 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED