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Don't Look Back In Anger · Oasis

EXERCISE 25 OF 45
Fill at bar 55 (a small one)
77 / 96 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Don't Look Back In Anger on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, toms through bars 13-18, ride through bars 19-35, hi-hat through bars 36-43 and toms through bars 44-49, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |-x--x--x-x--x--g|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Don't Look Back In Anger -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- K, F -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 4-36 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 21-44 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 10 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED