Gun To My Head · Malcolm Todd

48 bars, 2:38, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
48
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 74% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-22, 24-36 and 40-42 -- 74.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 72 BPM
GUN TO MY HEAD · BAR 10
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

48 bars across 3 sections: 37 keep time and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-38.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
VERSE
3 groovesCGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gun To My Head?

72 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Gun To My Head hard to play on drums?

39 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

48 bars, about 2:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 4 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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