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.

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 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--|

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

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.
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. Open above.
6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.