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Dont Look Back In Anger · Oasis

EXERCISE 14 OF 37
Join Part F to Chorus (bars 19-21)
78 / 96 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dont 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 and kick.

56 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
56/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, toms through bars 13-18, ride through bars 19-24, hi-hat through bars 25-43 and toms through bars 44-49, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |-x--x--x-x--x--g|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Dont Look Back In Anger -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- D, F -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-36 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 36-85 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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