Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) · ABBA

149 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 5:09 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Funk / SoulPop90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
5:09
DIFFICULTY
86/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 83% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 20-33 and 35-42, and 5 more places -- 83% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 115 BPM
GIMME! GIMME! GIMME! (A MAN AFTER MIDNIGHT) · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 34, 68 and 116.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

149 bars across 5 sections: 133 keep time, 3 are fills and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 69-115.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)?

115 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! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 5:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 34, 68 and 116.

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