Kids With Guns · Gorillaz

99 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 3:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieHip Hop / Reggae90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-26, 29-36 and 38-44, and 2 more places -- 47.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 106 BPM
KIDS WITH GUNS · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 10 sections: 79 keep time, 12 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-18.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCAJHS7+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Kids With Guns?

106 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 Kids With Guns hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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