Get A Haircut · George Thorogood & The Destroyers

124 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:08 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 80% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-35, 37-42 and 45-74, and 1 more place -- 79.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
GET A HAIRCUT · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 19, 20, 43 and 44.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 2 sections: 119 keep time and 4 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 45-124.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesDAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Get A Haircut?

120 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 Get A Haircut hard to play on drums?

52 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 24 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 Get A Haircut?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 19, 20, 43 and 44.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED
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