Take The Gun Son...But Don't Shoot · Alternative Competition 2

115 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-13, 18-25 and 34-41, and 1 more place -- 29.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
TAKE THE GUN SON...BUT DON'T SHOOT · BARS 6-7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 6 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 54-60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 66-67 · LANDS ON BAR 68 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 77 · LANDS ON BAR 78 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 97 · LANDS ON BAR 98
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 13 sections: 77 keep time, 12 are fills, 2 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 78-92.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART F
PART A
PART P
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBFTAP+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Take The Gun Son...But Don't Shoot?

120 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 Take The Gun Son...But Don't Shoot hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Take The Gun Son...But Don't Shoot?

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED
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