Gypsy · Fleetwood Mac

144 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 4:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 90% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-50, 52-53 and 55-56, and 11 more places -- 89.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 128 BPM
GYPSY · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 2 sections: 143 keep time and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-144.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gypsy?

128 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 Gypsy hard to play on drums?

53 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?

144 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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