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Gimme All Your Lovin' · ZZ Top

EXERCISE 4 OF 20
Groove E -- Outro
106 / 119 BARS COVERED
0 / 20 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gimme All Your Lovin' on drums

119 bars of 4/4 at 121 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
121 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
59/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-63, snare through bars 64-65, hi-hat through bars 66-67, snare through bars 68-69 and hi-hat through bars 70-87, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6-16, and 18 more places -- 75.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Gimme All Your Lovin' -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 46, 47, 55, 79, 91 and 103.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Gimme All Your Lovin'?

121 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 Gimme All Your Lovin' hard to play on drums?

59 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?

119 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Gimme All Your Lovin'?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 46, 47, 55, 79, 91 and 103.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED