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Gimme Back My Bullets · Lynyrd Skynyrd

EXERCISE 1 OF 31
Groove C -- Chorus 3
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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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gimme Back My Bullets on drums

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.

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
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
59/100

hi-hat through bars 2-5, ride through bars 6-13, hi-hat through bars 14-22, ride through bars 23-30, hi-hat through bars 31-40 and ride through bars 41-58, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--x-o-----x-o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
T1 |------xx------xx|
T2 |x-------x-------|
BD |---x-------x----|
HF |-----x-------x--|
Gimme Back My Bullets -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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, E -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through the Verse -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Bars 16-34 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 and the Outro -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED