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Real Gone · Sheryl Crow

EXERCISE 19 OF 38
Run I1 · Part I (bars 33-39)
64 / 98 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Real Gone on drums

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

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

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-34, snare through bars 35-38, hi-hat through bars 39-49, ride through bars 50-66 and silence through bars 67-70, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    23
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Real Gone -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- F, L -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 19-35 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 52-67 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Bars 71-83 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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