I'm Your Captain · Grand Funk Railroad

484 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 11:04 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues150 BPM and up
TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
484
LENGTH
11:04
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 249, 253 and 258-272, and 15 more places -- 23.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 176 BPM
I'M YOUR CAPTAIN · BAR 338
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 8, 99, 100, 101, 109, 111 and 38 more.

LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 109 · LANDS ON BAR 110
LOOP · 176 BPM
BARS 111-113 · LANDS ON BAR 114 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

484 bars across 33 sections: 274 keep time, 44 are fills, 125 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 154-200.

PART I
PART K
PART AM
CHORUS 2
PART BB
PART Q
26 groovesAVKQAQAM+21Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I'm Your Captain?

176 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is I'm Your Captain hard to play on drums?

46 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

484 bars, about 11:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 119 exercises over 28 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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'm Your Captain?

22 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 8, 99, 100, 101, 109, 111 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 484 BARS ANALYSED
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