I Come Tumblin' · Grand Funk Railroad

180 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 5:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
180
LENGTH
5:39
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 53-55, 57-63 and 65-68, and 3 more places -- 11.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 126 BPM
I COME TUMBLIN' · BAR 53
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16 and 48 more.

LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BARS 29-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

180 bars across 20 sections: 98 keep time, 54 are fills and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 52-71.

PART H
CHORUS
PART X
PART AJ
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
15 groovesTXHAGL+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Come Tumblin'?

126 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 I Come Tumblin' hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

180 bars, about 5:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 78 exercises over 28 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 I Come Tumblin'?

22 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16 and 48 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 180 BARS ANALYSED
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