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EXERCISE 12 OF 38
Groove L
79 / 109 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART P
PART R
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCURKP+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Go on drums

109 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:07 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
79/100

hi-hat through bars 3-6, kick and crashes through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, toms through bars 17-18, hi-hat through bars 19-50 and snare through bars 51-59, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 9-13 and 19-29, and 2 more places -- 22.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 60 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part K -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 44-61 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and Part R -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Go?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Go hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 13 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 60 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED