Country Girl (Shake It For Me) · Luke Bryan

100 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 3:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Country / FolkPop90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-28, 30-32 and 42-44, and 7 more places -- 29.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 106 BPM
COUNTRY GIRL (SHAKE IT FOR ME) · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 17, 21, 25, 29, 33, 40 and 19 more.

LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 106 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 9 sections: 65 keep time, 25 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-16.

PART B
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesHBRUE+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Country Girl (Shake It For Me)?

106 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 Country Girl (Shake It For Me) hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Country Girl (Shake It For Me)?

14 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 17, 21, 25, 29, 33, 40 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED
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