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Do Not Go Gently · Not Animals As Leaders

EXERCISE 27 OF 43
Run M2 · Chorus 2 (bars 57-80)
86 / 121 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART S6
CHORUS 2
PART AR
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesMS6S12ARC+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Do Not Go Gently on drums

121 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-6, snare through bars 7-25, silence through bars 26-28, snare through bars 29-88 and silence through bars 89-91, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14, 17 and 20, and 7 more places -- 9.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--xx-x-----x|
Do Not Go Gently -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 74 times: bars 12, 13, 15, 16, 18, 19 and 68 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- M -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AR, J -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 24-44 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part S6 and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part AR -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 57-88 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part U and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Do Not Go Gently?

130 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 Do Not Go Gently hard to play on drums?

62 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Do Not Go Gently?

13 fills to learn, played 74 times: bars 12, 13, 15, 16, 18, 19 and 68 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED