Tell me · Allan Holdsworth

160 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
5:13
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-4, 7-8 and 11, and 6 more places -- 8.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
TELL ME · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 76 times: bars 1, 5, 16, 17, 21, 22 and 70 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

160 bars across 11 sections: 70 keep time and 76 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 58-68.

PART C
PART K
PART J
PART AX
PART C
OUTRO
9 groovesBZCJAXK+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tell me?

120 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 me hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 5:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Tell me?

14 fills to learn, played 76 times: bars 1, 5, 16, 17, 21, 22 and 70 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED
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