Bang A Gong (Get It On) · T. Rex

138 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:36 of playing, on crash, ride, snare and kick.

Rock120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewerIntermediate
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-20, 28-30 and 34-42, and 5 more places -- 35.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BANG A GONG (GET IT ON) · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 4, 76 and 108.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

138 bars across 11 sections: 119 keep time, 3 are fills and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-66.

PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEFDS1S5+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bang A Gong (Get It On)?

120 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 Bang A Gong (Get It On) hard to play on drums?

54 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Bang A Gong (Get It On)?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 4, 76 and 108.

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