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Give a Little Bit · Goo Goo Dolls

EXERCISE 1 OF 40
Groove D -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART G
PART I
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDGIS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Give a Little Bit on drums

80 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 3:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-5 and hi-hat through bars 6-80.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-12 and 19-21, and 13 more places -- 34.2% 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
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x--x---x|
Give a Little Bit -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 5, 13, 18, 26, 30, 34 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- D, G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 27-46 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 42-69 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Give a Little Bit?

94 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 Give a Little Bit hard to play on drums?

55 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 29 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 Give a Little Bit?

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 5, 13, 18, 26, 30, 34 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED