Gimme some water · Eddie Money

83 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:37 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 15 and 17, and 13 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 90 BPM
GIMME SOME WATER · BAR 49
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 14, 16, 31, 33, 34, 35 and 11 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 38-39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

83 bars across 10 sections: 49 keep time, 19 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-13.

PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART O
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBEOS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gimme some water?

90 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 water hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 6 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.

How many fills are in Gimme some water?

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 14, 16, 31, 33, 34, 35 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED
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