Gunpowder & Lead · Miranda Lambert

67 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 2:49 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Country / Folk90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-19, 31-33 and 35-37, and 6 more places -- 57.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 94 BPM
GUNPOWDER & LEAD · BARS 13-14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 21, 22, 26, 30, 34, 47 and 3 more.

LOOP · 94 BPM
BARS 21-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

67 bars across 9 sections: 43 keep time, 9 are fills, 2 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 35-42.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
7 groovesCHS1S2S4+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gunpowder & Lead?

94 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 Gunpowder & Lead hard to play on drums?

52 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 2:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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 Gunpowder & Lead?

8 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 21, 22, 26, 30, 34, 47 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 67 BARS ANALYSED
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