Long Way Down · Goo Goo Dolls

139 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 3:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 69% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-12, 14 and 16, and 35 more places -- 69.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 176 BPM
LONG WAY DOWN · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 138.

LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 138 · LANDS ON BAR 139
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 2 sections: 93 keep time, 1 is a fill and 43 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 107-136.

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

Questions

What BPM is Long Way Down?

176 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Long Way Down hard to play on drums?

57 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Long Way Down?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 138.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED
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