Tell Him · Lauryn Hill

93 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 4:39 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

Hip Hop / ReggaeFunk / SoulUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 97% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-57, 59-89 and 91-92 -- 96.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 80 BPM
TELL HIM · BARS 1-2
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

93 bars: 93 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-93.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tell Him?

80 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 Him hard to play on drums?

57 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 4:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED
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