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Gotten · Slash Feat. Adam Levine

Gotten · Slash Feat. Adam Levine
EXERCISE 12 OF 33
Groove G -- Part G
84 / 157 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT
PART S1
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART I
PART S8
PART G
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBCIS1G+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gotten on drums

157 bars of 4/4 at 129 BPM, about 4:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
129 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
4:52
DIFFICULTY
38/100

snare through bar 1, silence through bars 2-16, hi-hat through bars 17-100, ride through bars 101-125, silence through bars 126-134 and ride through bars 135-157.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-33, 49-79 and 81 -- 36.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 80, 100, 124 and 156.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- B, C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 32-85 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 100-148 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 107-125 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 123-154 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Gotten?

129 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 Gotten hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 4:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 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 Gotten?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 80, 100, 124 and 156.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED