When You're Gone · The Cranberries.

73 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 97 BPM, 4:30 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePop90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 8 more places -- 58.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 97 BPM
WHEN YOU'RE GONE · BARS 5-6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 4, 24, 25, 26, 28, 32 and 3 more.

LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 97 BPM
BARS 24-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 97 BPM
BARS 32-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 3 sections: 37 keep time, 9 are fills and 27 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-23.

OUTRO
BREAK
3 groovesCS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is When You're Gone?

97 BPM, in 6/4, 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 When You're Gone hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, 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 When You're Gone?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 4, 24, 25, 26, 28, 32 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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