Drink In My Hand · Eric Church

83 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 2:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Country / FolkRock90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 66% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-16, 22-28 and 33-52, and 3 more places -- 66.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 114 BPM
DRINK IN MY HAND · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 21, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69 and 4 more.

LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BARS 65-69 · LANDS ON BAR 70 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BARS 81-83 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

83 bars across 7 sections: 66 keep time and 10 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-64.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
4 groovesACENFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Drink In My Hand?

114 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 Drink In My Hand hard to play on drums?

44 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Drink In My Hand?

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 21, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED
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