Tired of Being Alone · Al Green

67 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 2:42 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Funk / SoulPop90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
2:42
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 66% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-13, and 7 more places -- 65.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 98 BPM
TIRED OF BEING ALONE · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 64.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

67 bars across 3 sections: 63 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-45.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesAEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tired of Being Alone?

98 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 Tired of Being Alone hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Tired of Being Alone?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 64.

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