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Gimme Sympathy · Metric

EXERCISE 4 OF 18
Groove D -- Chorus
68 / 106 BARS COVERED
0 / 18 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 4
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gimme Sympathy on drums

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

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the speed of the hand keeping time.

TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
71/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-9 and hi-hat through bars 10-106.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Gimme Sympathy -- 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 17 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through the Verse and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Verse 2 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Verse 2 and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED