Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! BASS · ABBA

142 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:40 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
4:40
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 62% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-15, 17-38 and 40, and 11 more places -- 62% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
GIMME! GIMME! GIMME! BASS · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 142.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 142
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

142 bars across 11 sections: 126 keep time, 1 is a fill and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-74.

CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCMOBJ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! BASS?

120 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! BASS 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?

142 bars, about 4:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

How many fills are in Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! BASS?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 142.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED
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