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Use Somebody · Kings Of Leon

EXERCISE 9 OF 34
Groove F
81 / 123 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART S2
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART D
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesADS2GIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Use Somebody on drums

123 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 3:35 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
37/100

snare through bars 1-15, silence through bars 16-32, toms through bars 33-48, snare through bars 49-64, hi-hat through bars 65-72 and toms through bars 73-80, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 19 more places -- 41.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    81
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |------x-----x---|
BD |x---------x---x-|
Use Somebody -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 48, 56, 80, 88, 104, 108 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- A, D -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-49 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 61-84 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 88-105 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Use Somebody?

137 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 Use Somebody hard to play on drums?

37 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Use Somebody?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 48, 56, 80, 88, 104, 108 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED