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Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth) · George Harrison

EXERCISE 16 OF 23
Run F1 · Outro (bars 97-109)
135 / 142 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCFDES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth) on drums

142 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:37 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-7, snare through bars 8-13, hi-hat through bars 14-140 and ride through bars 141-142.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-7, 14-31 and 38-45, and 14 more places -- 69.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x---------|
Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth) -- 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 140 and 142.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- C -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. Bars 30-38 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 4 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)?

155 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 Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth) hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 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 Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 140 and 142.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED