Gimme Sympathy · Metric

106 bars of 4/4 at 143 BPM, about 2:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 61% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-17, 26-28 and 30-36, and 11 more places -- 61% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 143 BPM
GIMME SYMPATHY · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 10 sections: 94 keep time, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 70-100.

PART B
VERSE
CHORUS
VERSE 2
VERSE 3
CHORUS 2
VERSE 4
6 groovesCDBEF+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gimme Sympathy?

143 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 Sympathy hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the speed of the hand keeping time. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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