Since U Been Gone · Kelly Clarkson

101 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 3:05 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopRock120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-23, 36-49 and 62, and 3 more places -- 44.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 131 BPM
SINCE U BEEN GONE · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 24, 28, 30, 50, 54, 56 and 12 more.

LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 131 BPM
BARS 59-60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 10 sections: 66 keep time, 18 are fills, 6 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-23.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART H
PART M
PART E
OUTRO
6 groovesCEHMP+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Since U Been Gone?

131 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?

50 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Since U Been Gone?

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 24, 28, 30, 50, 54, 56 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
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