ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gone on drums

147 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:13 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO: 170 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 147
LENGTH: 3:13
DIFFICULTY: 62/100

hi-hat through bars 2-10, snare through bars 11-22, hi-hat through bars 23-39, ride through bars 40-45, snare through bars 46-47 and hi-hat through bars 48-51, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 64-74, 76-78 and 94 -- 10.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    64                       65
    1.......2.......3....... 1.......2.......3.......
CC |x-----------------------|------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------|o-------o-------o-------|
SD |------------------------|x-----------------------|
BD |x-------x-------x-------|----------------x-------|

Gone -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 6, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 24 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 59 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- AI -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
The grooves the song is built on -- L, G -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Bars 7-139 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Through Part Q -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
Through Part Q and Part W -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
and 9 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Gone?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Gone hard to play on drums?

62 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 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?

16 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 6, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED