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Gooning machine · VPL

EXERCISE 5 OF 86
Groove B -- Chorus
21 / 178 BARS COVERED
0 / 86 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
CHORUS
PART G
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART AI
PART T
CHORUS 3
BREAK 3
PART AP
17 groovesBGS19UAI+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 5
JOIN · 16
LINK · 4
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gooning machine on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
6:42
DIFFICULTY
55/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-11, ride through bars 12-31, snare through bars 32-48, toms through bars 49-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-58, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
T1 |--------------x-|
T2 |--------------x-|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Gooning machine -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 69 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 -- G -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AI -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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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