Keep Away · Godsmack

119 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 4:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
4:51
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 14-19, 22-27 and 38-43, and 3 more places -- 23.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 98 BPM
KEEP AWAY · BARS 14-15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 10, 12, 28, 32, 36, 51 and 21 more.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 11 sections: 70 keep time, 27 are fills, 8 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-27.

PART D
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART AD
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesHMANDAD+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Keep Away?

98 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 Keep Away hard to play on drums?

63 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 4:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 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 Keep Away?

11 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 10, 12, 28, 32, 36, 51 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
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