Gimme Back My Bullets · Lynyrd Skynyrd

74 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 3:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 15 and 18-19, and 7 more places -- 30.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 84 BPM
GIMME BACK MY BULLETS · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 20, 37, 38, 41, 42, 48 and 3 more.

LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 84 BPM
BARS 37-38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 84 BPM
BARS 41-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

74 bars across 8 sections: 53 keep time, 9 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 62-73.

CHORUS
VERSE
CHORUS 2
VERSE 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCEPS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gimme Back My Bullets?

84 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 Back My Bullets 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Back My Bullets?

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 20, 37, 38, 41, 42, 48 and 3 more.

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