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He's Gone · Grateful Dead

EXERCISE 16 OF 56
Hold Groove C for 8 bars -- Part C (bars 42-49)
212 / 267 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 16
LINK · 9
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play He's Gone on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
267
LENGTH
8:53
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-25, hi-hat through bars 26-35, ride through bars 36-40, hi-hat through bars 41-45 and ride through bars 46-50, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    36
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
RD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x-----------x-----|
He's Gone -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- D, C -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Bars 29-36 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 42-125 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 53-90 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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