Going Down · A

126 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-19, 21-26 and 82-88 -- 23% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 128 BPM
GOING DOWN · BARS 5-6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 28, 52, 60, 66, 70, 73 and 6 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 11 sections: 97 keep time, 12 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-27.

CHORUS
PART H
PART J
PART H
PART L
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCHJUL+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Going Down?

128 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 Going Down hard to play on drums?

57 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Going Down?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 28, 52, 60, 66, 70, 73 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
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