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Going Down · A

EXERCISE 3 OF 43
Groove H -- Part H
28 / 126 BARS COVERED
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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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 8
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Going Down on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-28, ride through bars 29-36, hi-hat through bars 37-52, ride through bars 53-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-89, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5                6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |x-x-o-x-x-x-o-x-|x-x-o-x-o-x-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|x-------x-------|
Going Down -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Bars 37-61 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part L -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 70-85 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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