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It's Gone · The Blackberries.com

EXERCISE 19 OF 33
Groove K -- Outro
44 / 66 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART D
PART E
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesKGS2DE+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play It's Gone on drums

66 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 2:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
2:35
DIFFICULTY
95/100

silence through bars 1-13, kick and crashes through bars 14-15, silence through bars 16-18, toms through bars 19-26, hi-hat through bars 27-34 and ride through bars 35-42, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-26 -- 15.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    19
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
T1 |----x---------------x-----------|
T2 |--------------x-------------x---|
FT |x-------x-x-----x-----x---x-----|
It's Gone -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 14, 30, 34, 37, 38, 41 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 6-30 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part G -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part G -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is It's Gone?

102 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 It's Gone hard to play on drums?

95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 2:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 11 sittings, about 23 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 It's Gone?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 14, 30, 34, 37, 38, 41 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED