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Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! BASS · ABBA

EXERCISE 10 OF 31
Run C1 · Chorus (bars 11-74)
104 / 142 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 64 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCMOBJ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! BASS on drums

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

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
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
4:40
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-5 and hi-hat through bars 6-142.

The beat

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.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! BASS -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. Through the Verse and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 78-91 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 82-104 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 116-131 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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