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Gimme Shelter · The Rolling Stones

EXERCISE 9 OF 24
Groove H
109 / 134 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, OUTRO 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesEBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gimme Shelter on drums

134 bars of 4/4 at 119 BPM, about 4:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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
119 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-20 and hi-hat through bars 21-134.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-23, 26-28 and 30-31, and 25 more places -- 44.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
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

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 20, 24, 32, 48, 52, 68 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- E, D -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Gimme Shelter?

119 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. 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?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 20, 24, 32, 48, 52, 68 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED