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Gimme some water · Eddie Money

EXERCISE 11 OF 39
Run E1 · Part E (bars 6-14)
61 / 83 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gimme some water on drums

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.

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
39/100

hi-hat through bars 2-83.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- B, E -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 22-42 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 36-72 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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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