He's Gone · Grateful Dead

267 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 8:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
267
LENGTH
8:53
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-11, 13 and 15, and 40 more places -- 39.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
HE'S GONE · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 76, 151, 260, 262 and 267.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 260 · LANDS ON BAR 261
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 262 · LANDS ON BAR 263
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 267
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

267 bars across 27 sections: 219 keep time, 5 are fills, 6 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 215-259.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 4
PART C
CHORUS 7
CHORUS 8
11 groovesDCLQJ+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is He's Gone?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 He's Gone hard to play on drums?

56 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

267 bars, about 8:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 He's Gone?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 76, 151, 260, 262 and 267.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 267 BARS ANALYSED
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