Getaway Car · Audioslave

73 bars, 4:30, at 65 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
65 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
35/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-12, 21-32 and 65-72 -- 48.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 65 BPM
GETAWAY CAR · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 36 and 60.

LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 7 sections: 58 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-12.

CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesABS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Getaway Car?

65 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Getaway Car hard to play on drums?

35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 3 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Getaway Car?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 36 and 60.

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