going down · Joe Bonamassa

135 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 5:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
5:43
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-12, 16-18 and 51-53, and 10 more places -- 19.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 95 BPM
GOING DOWN · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 20, 46, 58, 70, 82, 91 and 14 more.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars across 11 sections: 92 keep time, 20 are fills and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 31-45.

COUNT-IN
PART E
PART D
PART C
PART K
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
7 groovesNCDEK+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is going down?

95 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 going down hard to play on drums?

63 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 5:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 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 going down?

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 20, 46, 58, 70, 82, 91 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED
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