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Tell Them To Bring Their Guns · Return to Glory

EXERCISE 27 OF 52
18-bar fill at bar 33
67 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 5
JOIN · 7
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tell Them To Bring Their Guns on drums

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.

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
81/100

ride through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-20, snare through bars 21-42, hi-hat through bars 43-51, silence through bars 52-53 and snare through bars 54-66, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    55                               56
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|----------------x---------------|
BD |x-------x---x-x-x-x---x---x---x-|x---x-x-x---x---x-x---x---x---x-|
Tell Them To Bring Their Guns -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AM, AQ -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 19-32 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part S4 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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