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

EXERCISE 3 OF 13
Groove C -- Part C
118 / 149 BARS COVERED
0 / 13 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) on drums

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

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
5:09
DIFFICULTY
86/100

silence through bars 1-9 and hi-hat through bars 10-149.

The beat

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.

    20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |ggxxggxxggxxggxx|
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- D -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 39-149 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED