True. · Spandau Ballet

129 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 5:07 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
5:07
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 25-28 and 42, and 9 more places -- 46.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
TRUE. · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 61, 89, 93 and 117.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 89 · LANDS ON BAR 90
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 93 · LANDS ON BAR 94
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 117 · LANDS ON BAR 118
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 12 sections: 98 keep time, 4 are fills, 5 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 72-88.

PART B
PART S3
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCBS3HE+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is True.?

100 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 True. hard to play on drums?

41 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?

129 bars, about 5:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in True.?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 61, 89, 93 and 117.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
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