Keep On Swinging · Rival Sons

97 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 3:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 8, 20-22 and 24-26, and 1 more place -- 10.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 88 BPM
KEEP ON SWINGING · BARS 20-21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 18, 19, 23 and 19 more.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BARS 1-3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BARS 18-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 13 sections: 56 keep time, 25 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-10.

CHORUS
PART K
PART F
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART H
PART AL
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesDALEFK+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Keep On Swinging?

88 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 Keep On Swinging hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 17 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 Keep On Swinging?

14 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 18, 19, 23 and 19 more.

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