Lawyers, Guns And Money · Warren Zevon

63 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 2:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
2:36
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 16-17, 27-28 and 37-38, and 3 more places -- 19.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 97 BPM
LAWYERS, GUNS AND MONEY · BARS 16-17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 19 and 15 more.

LOOP · 97 BPM
BARS 4-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

63 bars across 7 sections: 30 keep time, 21 are fills, 4 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-14.

PART B
PART G
CHORUS
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesKGVBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lawyers, Guns And Money?

97 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 Lawyers, Guns And Money hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

63 bars, about 2:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 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 Lawyers, Guns And Money?

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 19 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 63 BARS ANALYSED
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