Tell Me Something Good · rufus

64 bars, 3:28, at 74 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-7, 10 and 14-16, and 8 more places -- 58.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 74 BPM
TELL ME SOMETHING GOOD · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 3, 4, 8, 11, 12, 40 and 1 more.

LOOP · 74 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 74 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

64 bars across 3 sections: 54 keep time, 7 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-39.

OUTRO
3 groovesES1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tell Me Something Good?

74 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Tell Me Something Good 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

64 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Me Something Good?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 3, 4, 8, 11, 12, 40 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 64 BARS ANALYSED
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