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Since U Been Gone · Kelly Clarkson

EXERCISE 36 OF 39
Run P1 · Outro (bars 91-96)
100 / 101 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Since U Been Gone on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
50/100

hi-hat through bars 2-72, toms through bars 73-75, hi-hat through bars 76-84, snare through bars 85-95 and hi-hat through bars 96-101.

The beat

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.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Since U Been Gone -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- C, E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 24-34 -- 8 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part H -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part M and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
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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