Tell Me Why · The Penpals

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

Rock120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

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.

LOOP · 120 BPM
TELL ME WHY · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

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

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 24-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

91 bars across 10 sections: 68 keep time, 13 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 76-90.

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

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.

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