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Tell Me You Know · Good Kid

EXERCISE 7 OF 19
Groove G
147 / 158 BARS COVERED
0 / 19 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
2 groovesADFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tell Me You Know on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
194 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 1-54, snare through bars 55-59, hi-hat through bars 60-62, snare through bars 63-64, toms through bars 65-66 and hi-hat through bars 67-92, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

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 -- A, D -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 105-157 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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