Damaged Goods · Gang Of Four

135 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 3:25 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

PunkRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 86% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-31, 33-88 and 90-105, and 5 more places -- 85.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 158 BPM
DAMAGED GOODS · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 32, 89, 109, 113, 133 and 2 more.

LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 89 · LANDS ON BAR 90
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 109 · LANDS ON BAR 110 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars across 5 sections: 117 keep time, 8 are fills and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-88.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCS1FHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Damaged Goods?

158 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Damaged Goods hard to play on drums?

60 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Damaged Goods?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 32, 89, 109, 113, 133 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED
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