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Gimme Shelter · Paul Brady

Gimme Shelter · Paul Brady
EXERCISE 1 OF 30
Groove C -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCAFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gimme Shelter on drums

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

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
49/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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, F -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 41-130 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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