Give It Back · Lagwagon

138 bars at 230 BPM -- fast, and 2:24 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunk150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
230 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
2:24
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 29-40, 83-88 and 91, and 1 more place -- 20.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 230 BPM
GIVE IT BACK · BARS 29-30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 28, 92, 98 and 130.

LOOP · 230 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 230 BPM
BAR 98 · LANDS ON BAR 99 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

138 bars across 16 sections: 79 keep time, 4 are fills, 13 are stops and 26 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 66-81.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART G
PART J
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART I
PART L
OUTRO
10 groovesEIS1JL+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Give It Back?

230 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Give It Back hard to play on drums?

53 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 2:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Give It Back?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 28, 92, 98 and 130.

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