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Gimme Some Lovin' Blues Brothers · blues brothers

EXERCISE 25 OF 29
Join Part G to Outro (bars 83-85)
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0 / 29 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gimme Some Lovin' Blues Brothers on drums

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

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
52/100

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 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.

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

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- D, G -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Bars 11-19 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 19-58 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 65-73 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
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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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