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going down · Joe Bonamassa

EXERCISE 8 OF 50
Run E1 · Part E (bars 15-29)
63 / 135 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play going down on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
5:43
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-46, ride through bars 47-48, hi-hat through bars 49-58, ride through bars 59-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-69, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    11
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---x-----------|
going down -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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, D -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 15-76 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Bars 59-95 -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  8. Bars 50-79 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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