Beer Drinkers And Hell Raisers · ZZ Top

106 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 3:13 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 84% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-2, 5-10 and 13-19, and 9 more places -- 84% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BEER DRINKERS AND HELL RAISERS · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 43, 44, 59 and 60.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 43-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars: 96 keep time, 7 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 77-106.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Beer Drinkers And Hell Raisers?

132 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 Beer Drinkers And Hell Raisers 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Beer Drinkers And Hell Raisers?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 43, 44, 59 and 60.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED
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