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Tell The Truth · Derek And The Dominos

EXERCISE 1 OF 51
Groove Q -- Part Q
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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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tell The Truth on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
6:09
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-19, toms through bars 20-26, hi-hat through bars 27-36, ride through bars 37-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-69, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    37
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Tell The Truth -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- Q, D -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Bars 53-89 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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