Give A Little Bit · Supertramp

93 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 4:12 of playing, on crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-35, 37 and 39, and 1 more place -- 45.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 88 BPM
GIVE A LITTLE BIT · BAR 24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 22 and 90.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 90 · LANDS ON BAR 91
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

93 bars across 5 sections: 65 keep time, 2 are fills, 4 are stops and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-60.

PART S1
CHORUS
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDS1GBFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Give A Little Bit?

88 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how fine the subdivision is the part that decides it. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. 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?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 22 and 90.

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