Tell The Truth · Derek And The Dominos

146 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 6:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Jazz / BluesRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
6:09
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-39, 41 and 43-45, and 21 more places -- 26.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 95 BPM
TELL THE TRUTH · BAR 37
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 19, 20, 26 and 21 more.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

146 bars across 15 sections: 96 keep time, 27 are fills and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 87-95.

CHORUS
PART O
PART Q
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART Q
CHORUS 5
PART Q
7 groovesDQJOS14+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tell The Truth?

95 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 The Truth hard to play on drums?

50 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 6:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 The Truth?

10 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 19, 20, 26 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED
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