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Go Off! · Cacophony

Go Off! · Cacophony
EXERCISE 5 OF 29
Groove R -- Part R
14 / 72 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART R
PART B
PART S3
CHORUS
PART G
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesKBRS3T+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Go Off! on drums

72 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 1:42 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
1:42
DIFFICULTY
61/100

hi-hat through bars 1-10, kick and crashes through bars 11-25, hi-hat through bars 26-42, snare through bars 43-49, hi-hat through bars 50-58 and ride through bars 59-68, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27 and 31-40 -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x--x-x----------x--x-x----------|
Go Off! -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 5, 10, 25, 28, 29 and 61.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-27 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part R -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part R and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Go Off!?

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

Is Go Off! hard to play on drums?

61 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 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 1:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 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 Go Off!?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 5, 10, 25, 28, 29 and 61.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED