Since U Been Gone · A Day To Remember

102 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:11 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-13, 15-17 and 20-23, and 9 more places -- 35% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 128 BPM
SINCE U BEEN GONE · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 30, 35, 36, 44, 46, 48 and 16 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 35-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 10 sections: 65 keep time, 22 are fills, 3 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-29.

PART B
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART S6
PART AC
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesENBACS6+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Since U Been Gone?

128 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 Since U Been 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?

102 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Since U Been Gone?

14 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 30, 35, 36, 44, 46, 48 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED
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