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Gone Forever · Three Days Grace

EXERCISE 1 OF 24
Groove E -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesEBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gone Forever on drums

65 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 3:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, ride through bars 21-22, snare through bars 23-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-48, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 33-35, and 6 more places -- 45.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Gone Forever -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 11, 16, 21, 22, 31, 36 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- E, B -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 9-26 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Gone Forever?

78 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 Gone Forever hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Gone Forever?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 11, 16, 21, 22, 31, 36 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 65 BARS ANALYSED