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Already Gone · Eagles

EXERCISE 14 OF 36
Groove J -- Part J
116 / 152 BARS COVERED
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CHORUS
PART I
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART I
OUTRO
6 groovesGIS2TJ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Already Gone on drums

152 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 4:13 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
53/100

toms through bars 2-5, snare through bars 6-8 and hi-hat through bars 9-152.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-24 and 33, and 19 more places -- 53% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Already Gone -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 5, 25, 29, 37, 57, 61 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- G, I -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 2-62 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part I -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 29-62 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Bars 59-138 -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Already Gone?

144 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 Already Gone hard to play on drums?

53 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Already Gone?

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 5, 25, 29, 37, 57, 61 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED