Sure Know Something · KISS

122 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 4:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockFunk / Soul90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-15 and 17-23, and 1 more place -- 28.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 115 BPM
SURE KNOW SOMETHING · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 9, 25, 37, 52, 53, 70 and 2 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 115 BPM
BARS 52-53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 6 sections: 107 keep time, 8 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 93-122.

CHORUS
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBTPQM+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sure Know Something?

115 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 Sure Know Something hard to play on drums?

59 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 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 Sure Know Something?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 9, 25, 37, 52, 53, 70 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED
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