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Elephant Gun. · David Lee Roth

Elephant Gun. · David Lee Roth
EXERCISE 1 OF 20
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Elephant Gun. on drums

74 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 2:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
2:22
DIFFICULTY
84/100

hi-hat through bars 1-70 and snare through bars 71-74.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-3, 11-16 and 20-22, and 7 more places -- 51.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Elephant Gun. -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 4, 5, 27, 48, 49, 50 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- B -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 29-56 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Elephant Gun.?

125 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 Elephant Gun. hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 2:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Elephant Gun.?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 4, 5, 27, 48, 49, 50 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED