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Gunman · Them Crooked Vultures

EXERCISE 22 OF 42
Join Part G to Part K (bars 75-77)
109 / 130 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, PART K
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART K
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART G
7 groovesBGORS11+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gunman on drums

130 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 4:47 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
4:47
DIFFICULTY
59/100

toms through bars 1-25, hi-hat through bars 26-35, toms through bars 36-65, hi-hat through bars 66-88, toms through bars 89-104 and hi-hat through bars 105-125, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 17 more places -- 43.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |--x---x---x---x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
FT |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x-x-x---|
HF |x---x---x---x---|
Gunman -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 5, 25, 26, 31, 37 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- B -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Bars 23-39 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 36-77 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 75-81 -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part O -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Gunman?

113 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 Gunman hard to play on drums?

59 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 4:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 12 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Gunman?

7 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 5, 25, 26, 31, 37 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED