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Gotta Get Away · The Offspring

EXERCISE 1 OF 27
Groove A -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART F
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAFCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gotta Get Away on drums

121 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
55/100

toms through bars 1-20, ride through bars 21-28, toms through bars 29-44, hi-hat through bars 45-52, ride through bars 53-60 and toms through bars 61-76, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-11 and 13-20, and 10 more places -- 38.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-x-----x-x-|
FT |g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Gotta Get Away -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 28, 44, 52, 56, 60, 76 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- A, F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 21-48 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 49-92 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Gotta Get Away?

130 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 Gotta Get Away 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Gotta Get Away?

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 28, 44, 52, 56, 60, 76 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED