Real Gone · Sheryl Crow

98 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 3:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Country / FolkPop90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-29, 43-48 and 75-81, and 2 more places -- 32.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 118 BPM
REAL GONE · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 22, 30, 42, 49, 57, 58 and 5 more.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BARS 57-58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 11 sections: 62 keep time, 11 are fills and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-21.

COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFLS1DI+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Real Gone?

118 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 Real Gone hard to play on drums?

48 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Real Gone?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 22, 30, 42, 49, 57, 58 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED
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