Tell Me You Know · Good Kid

158 bars at 194 BPM -- fast, and 3:15 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
194 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 26 more places -- 41.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 194 BPM
TELL ME YOU KNOW · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 65, 66 and 104.

LOOP · 194 BPM
BARS 65-66 · LANDS ON BAR 67 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 194 BPM
BAR 104 · LANDS ON BAR 105
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

158 bars across 4 sections: 135 keep time, 5 are fills and 14 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-44.

CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
2 groovesADFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tell Me You Know?

194 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Tell Me You Know hard to play on drums?

53 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 You Know?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 65, 66 and 104.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 158 BARS ANALYSED
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