Dont 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 and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-11 and 26-27, and 9 more places -- 31.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 81 BPM
DONT LOOK BACK IN ANGER · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 4, 12, 19, 20, 24, 28 and 12 more.

LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 81 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 11 sections: 57 keep time, 18 are fills, 2 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 62-69.

PART D
PART F
CHORUS
PART D
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesIFDCS11+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dont 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 Dont Look Back In Anger hard to play on drums?

56 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 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Dont Look Back In Anger?

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 4, 12, 19, 20, 24, 28 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED
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