Machine Gun · Jimi Hendrix

208 bars, 11:24, at 73 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick and nothing else.

RockJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
73 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
208
LENGTH
11:24
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 95% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 16 and 20, and 1 more place -- 95% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 73 BPM
MACHINE GUN · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 14.

LOOP · 73 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

208 bars across 4 sections: 195 keep time, 1 is a fill and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-208.

OUTRO 2
4 groovesCS1BFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Machine Gun?

73 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Machine Gun hard to play on drums?

53 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

208 bars, about 11:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Machine Gun?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 14.

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