Gay Bar · Electric Six

97 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 2:15 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
2:15
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-14, 17-22 and 41-46, and 2 more places -- 37.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 172 BPM
GAY BAR · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 15, 16, 23, 24, 32, 40 and 12 more.

LOOP · 172 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 172 BPM
BARS 47-50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 8 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 10 sections: 55 keep time, 18 are fills, 2 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-39.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART S6
CHORUS 3
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCGS6NB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gay Bar?

172 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Gay Bar hard to play on drums?

62 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 2:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 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 Gay Bar?

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 15, 16, 23, 24, 32, 40 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED
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