Gel · Collective Soul

104 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 3:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePop120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-11, 13-19 and 23-25, and 4 more places -- 31.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 133 BPM
GEL · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 22, 30, 38, 52, 60, 68 and 13 more.

LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 133 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 133 BPM
BARS 68-72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 6 sections: 73 keep time, 19 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 39-50.

PART A
CHORUS
PART J
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCJQAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gel?

133 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 Gel hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 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 Gel?

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 22, 30, 38, 52, 60, 68 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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