I'm Goin' Down · Bruce Springsteen

115 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 90% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-71, 73-87 and 89-95, and 2 more places -- 89.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
I'M GOIN' DOWN · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 88 and 104.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 104 · LANDS ON BAR 105
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 2 sections: 111 keep time and 2 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-87.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I'm Goin' Down?

120 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 I'm Goin' Down hard to play on drums?

43 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in I'm Goin' Down?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 88 and 104.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED
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