Technical Difficulties · Paul Gilbert

133 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Rock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
91/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 75-94 and 97-102 -- 19.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES · BARS 75-76
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 19, 20, 22, 24, 26, 132 and 1 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 132-133 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 12 sections: 105 keep time and 7 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 76-103.

PART B
PART E
PART R
PART X
CHORUS
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesZBRXP+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Technical Difficulties?

130 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 Technical Difficulties hard to play on drums?

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 19 sittings, about 23 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 Technical Difficulties?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 19, 20, 22, 24, 26, 132 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED
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