Gimme Shelter · Paul Brady

137 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 4:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-7, 9-11 and 16-19, and 17 more places -- 40.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 118 BPM
GIMME SHELTER · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 20, 24, 28 and 22 more.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 14 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

137 bars across 7 sections: 98 keep time, 28 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 128-135.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCAFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gimme Shelter?

118 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 Shelter hard to play on drums?

49 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 4:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Gimme Shelter?

7 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 20, 24, 28 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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