Gooning machine · VPL

169 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 6:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
6:42
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-14, 16-19 and 22-26, and 2 more places -- 14% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
GOONING MACHINE · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 1, 5, 10, 11, 15, 20 and 29 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

178 bars across 23 sections: 87 keep time, 35 are fills, 6 are stops and 35 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 154-162.

CHORUS
PART G
PART M
PART U
PART AI
PART T
BREAK 3
PART AP
17 groovesBGS19UAI+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gooning machine?

100 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 Gooning machine hard to play on drums?

55 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 6:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 22 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Gooning machine?

16 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 1, 5, 10, 11, 15, 20 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED
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