Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident) · John Michael Montgomery

105 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Country / Folk90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-12, 17-20 and 33-35, and 3 more places -- 32% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 115 BPM
SOLD (THE GRUNDY COUNTY AUCTION INCIDENT) · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 24, 36, 57, 58, 59, 60 and 4 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 115 BPM
BARS 57-60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 77 · LANDS ON BAR 78

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 19 sections: 74 keep time, 10 are fills and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 79-92.

PART C
PART C
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDCFHB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident)?

115 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 Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident) hard to play on drums?

61 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident)?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 24, 36, 57, 58, 59, 60 and 4 more.

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