Gimme Gimme · Dead Sara

130 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 2:58 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 34-40 and 42-47, and 8 more places -- 39% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 175 BPM
GIMME GIMME · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 32, 33, 48 and 14 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 32-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 13 sections: 56 keep time, 20 are fills, 31 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-31.

CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART L
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesEBS12LS2+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gimme Gimme?

175 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Gimme Gimme hard to play on drums?

50 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 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 Gimme?

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 32, 33, 48 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED
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