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.

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

120 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

137

LENGTH

4:34

DIFFICULTY

50/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-25, snare through bars 26-30, hi-hat through bars 31-45, snare through bars 46-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-72, and 8 more changes after that.

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.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|

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

It cuts the song into 34 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

1. The grooves the song is built on -- C, D -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
4. Through Part D and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
5. Bars 29-49 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
6. Bars 48-73 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
7. Bars 79-115 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
8. Bars 103-124 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
9. and 1 more sittings after that.