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Go Away · 88 Fingers Louie

EXERCISE 20 OF 39
Groove J -- Part J
69 / 101 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, OUTRO
PART F
CHORUS
PART J
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEJFOP+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Go Away on drums

101 bars at 184 BPM -- fast, and 2:12 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
184 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
2:12
DIFFICULTY
69/100

silence through bars 1-5, toms through bars 6-8, hi-hat through bars 9-30, ride through bars 31-45, snare through bars 46-63 and hi-hat through bars 64-71, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 19, and 9 more places -- 23.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x-x-x-x-|
Go Away -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 4, 6, 7, 8, 18, 20 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- E -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P, N -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part J -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 27-86 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 39-86 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Go Away?

184 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Go Away hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 2:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Go Away?

6 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 4, 6, 7, 8, 18, 20 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED