Tell 'Em About Tonight · Luke Combs

100 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-5, 50 and 52-53, and 5 more places -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 115 BPM
TELL 'EM ABOUT TONIGHT · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 25, 33, 40, 41, 51 and 11 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BARS 40-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 11 sections: 68 keep time, 17 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-24.

CHORUS
PART D
PART C
PART D
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBDCUS8+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tell 'Em About Tonight?

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 Tell 'Em About Tonight hard to play on drums?

49 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 8 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Tell 'Em About Tonight?

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 25, 33, 40, 41, 51 and 11 more.

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