Gimme Three Steps · Lynyrd Skynyrd

148 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 4:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 18-20, and 5 more places -- 43.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 132 BPM
GIMME THREE STEPS · BARS 10-11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 9, 13, 21, 43, 51, 52 and 4 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44
LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 51-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

148 bars across 7 sections: 127 keep time, 10 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-42.

CHORUS
PART B
PART O
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFOBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gimme Three Steps?

132 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 Three Steps 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Three Steps?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 9, 13, 21, 43, 51, 52 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED
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