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To Love Somebody · Bee Gees

EXERCISE 7 OF 14
Groove F
46 / 68 BARS COVERED
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PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play To Love Somebody on drums

68 bars of 4/4 at a walking 91 BPM, 2:59 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
45/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-25, kick and crashes through bars 26-32, ride through bars 33-52, kick and crashes through bars 53-56 and ride through bars 57-60, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-20, 22-24 and 33-47, and 3 more places -- 61.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 21, 48, 56, 64 and 68.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- C -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 52-57 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is To Love Somebody?

91 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 To Love Somebody hard to play on drums?

45 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 To Love Somebody?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 21, 48, 56, 64 and 68.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED