Tell Them To Bring Their Guns · Return to Glory

120 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 4:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 55-66 -- 10.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 115 BPM
TELL THEM TO BRING THEIR GUNS · BARS 55-56
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10 and 38 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 115 BPM
BARS 8-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 13 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 11 sections: 51 keep time, 44 are fills, 11 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 88-102.

PART A
CHORUS
PART AA
PART Y
PART AM
OUTRO 2
11 groovesOAAMAAAQ+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tell Them To Bring Their Guns?

115 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 Tell Them To Bring Their Guns hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 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 Tell Them To Bring Their Guns?

10 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
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