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Tell 'Em About Tonight · Luke Combs

EXERCISE 5 OF 45
Groove C -- Part C
47 / 100 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 19 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART C, CHORUS 3
CHORUS
PART D
PART C
PART D
PART C
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBDCUS8+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tell 'Em About Tonight on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
49/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-69, snare through bars 70-75, silence through bars 76-79, toms through bars 80-83 and hi-hat through bars 84-91, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|
Tell 'Em About Tonight -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- B, D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part D and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Bars 46-61 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 67-84 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 82-94 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED