Gnaw · Alex G

67 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 2:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
2:41
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-21, 24-30 and 32, and 1 more place -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
GNAW · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 39 and 65.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

67 bars across 8 sections: 44 keep time, 2 are fills, 10 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-38.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART S4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBIS7S1S4+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gnaw?

100 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 Gnaw hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 2:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 3 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Gnaw?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 39 and 65.

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