Get it On (Bang a Gong) · T. Rex

137 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 23 and 31-35, and 7 more places -- 34.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
GET IT ON (BANG A GONG) · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 4, 26 and 76.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

137 bars across 19 sections: 109 keep time, 3 are fills and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 108-122.

CHORUS
PART D
PART D
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
PART J
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCDJHE+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Get it On (Bang a Gong)?

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 it On (Bang a Gong) hard to play on drums?

50 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?

137 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Get it On (Bang a Gong)?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 4, 26 and 76.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED
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