Pistol Grip Pump · Rage Against The Machine

75 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 3:11 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 95% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-75 -- 94.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 94 BPM
PISTOL GRIP PUMP · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

75 bars across 2 sections: 74 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-75.

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

Questions

What BPM is Pistol Grip Pump?

94 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 Pistol Grip Pump hard to play on drums?

42 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 26 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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