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Give A Little Bit · Supertramp

EXERCISE 1 OF 17
Groove D -- Chorus
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PART S1
CHORUS
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDS1GBFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Give A Little Bit on drums

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.

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how fine the subdivision is the part that decides it.

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
38/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-22, snare through bars 23-90 and kick and crashes through bars 91-93.

The beat

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.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-------------x-x---x-----------|
HF |x---x---x---x---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

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 22-91 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED