Don't Look Back In Anger · Oasis

96 bars of 4/4 at a walking 81 BPM, 4:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePopUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-27, 30-32 and 34, and 7 more places -- 22.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 81 BPM
DON'T LOOK BACK IN ANGER · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 4, 12, 19, 20, 24, 28 and 17 more.

LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 81 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 8 sections: 56 keep time, 23 are fills, 2 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 56-62.

PART D
CHORUS
PART I
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFKIDS8+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Don't Look Back In Anger?

81 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 Don't Look Back In Anger hard to play on drums?

57 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 4:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Don't Look Back In Anger?

13 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 4, 12, 19, 20, 24, 28 and 17 more.

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