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Since You Been Gone · A Day To Remember

EXERCISE 4 OF 51
Groove K -- Part K (a two-bar phrase)
51 / 102 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
PART B
CHORUS
PART K
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART S7
PART AB
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDBKABN+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Since You Been Gone on drums

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

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
49/100

hi-hat through bars 2-24, snare through bars 25-34, toms through bars 35-36, hi-hat through bars 37-44, snare through bars 45-84 and hi-hat through bars 85-88, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-13, 15-17 and 19-23, and 8 more places -- 37% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 30, 35, 36, 44, 46, 48 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- D, B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 33-47 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part K and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part N and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part AB and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Bars 71-89 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Since You 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 You Been Gone hard to play on drums?

49 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 38 exercises over 9 sittings, about 29 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 You Been Gone?

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 30, 35, 36, 44, 46, 48 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED