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Gone With The Wind · Ritchie Blackmore

EXERCISE 1 OF 23
Groove C -- Verse
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CHORUS
VERSE
OUTRO
VERSE 2
3 groovesCAEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gone With The Wind on drums

139 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
82/100

snare through bars 1-14 and hi-hat through bars 15-139.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-22, 24-31 and 33-40, and 3 more places -- 80.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxx-xxxxxxx-xxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x-x--x--x-|
Gone With The Wind -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 14, 23, 32, 41, 50, 54 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus and the Verse -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Verse -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 47-62 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Gone With The Wind?

120 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 With The Wind hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Gone With The Wind?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 14, 23, 32, 41, 50, 54 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED