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Tell Me The Truth · Midnight Oil

EXERCISE 7 OF 55
Run S21 · Part S2 (bars 2-10)
82 / 142 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S2
PART S2
PART I
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART X
OUTRO 2
10 groovesJUXS2I+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tell Me The Truth on drums

142 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-18, hi-hat through bars 19-42, snare through bars 43-49, toms through bars 50-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-77, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-41, 55-76 and 127-140 -- 41.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Tell Me The Truth -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 33 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- J, I -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 2-43 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 41-50 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 48-88 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part U -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 89-104 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Tell Me The Truth?

140 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 The Truth hard to play on drums?

55 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 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 The Truth?

11 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED