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Tell Me Why · Berserk

Tell Me Why · Berserk
EXERCISE 1 OF 20
Groove C -- Chorus
0 / 91 BARS COVERED
0 / 20 PASSED · 48 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCDAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tell Me Why on drums

91 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
46/100

snare through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-25, snare through bars 26-34, hi-hat through bars 35-47, snare through bars 48-68 and hi-hat through bars 69-73, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-12, 27-34 and 49-56, and 2 more places -- 52.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Tell Me Why -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 20, 24, 25, 26, 42 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- C, D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 1-16 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Tell Me Why?

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 Why hard to play on drums?

46 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 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 Why?

3 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 20, 24, 25, 26, 42 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED