In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida · Iron Butterfly

511 bars of 4/4 at 119 BPM, about 17:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockProgressive90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
119 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
511
LENGTH
17:13
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 64-189 and 380-382 -- 25.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 119 BPM
IN-A-GADDA-DA-VIDA · BAR 65
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 29, 55, 378, 483 and 487.

LOOP · 119 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 119 BPM
BAR 378 · LANDS ON BAR 379
LOOP · 119 BPM
BAR 483 · LANDS ON BAR 484
LOOP · 119 BPM
BAR 487 · LANDS ON BAR 488
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

511 bars across 24 sections: 471 keep time, 5 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 65-189.

CHORUS
PART BH
PART BK
15 groovesHBHCBKD+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida?

119 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 In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

511 bars, about 17:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 20 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 29, 55, 378, 483 and 487.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 511 BARS ANALYSED
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