Gimme Some Lovin' Blues Brothers · blues brothers

114 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:09 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-22, 28-33 and 35-37, and 8 more places -- 35.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 145 BPM
GIMME SOME LOVIN' BLUES BROTHERS · BAR 43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 12 sections: 101 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-37.

PART A
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART J
CHORUS 4
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDGABJ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gimme Some Lovin' Blues Brothers?

145 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 Some Lovin' Blues Brothers hard to play on drums?

52 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 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.

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