Gambit · Shrezzers

84 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 13 more places -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 95 BPM
GAMBIT · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 8, 10, 12, 16, 20, 24 and 20 more.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 10 sections: 40 keep time, 26 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 51-54.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDRGACM+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gambit?

95 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Gambit hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Gambit?

16 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 8, 10, 12, 16, 20, 24 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED
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