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When You're Gone · The Cranberries.

When You're Gone · The Cranberries.
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EXERCISE 1 OF 17
Groove C -- Outro (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 17 PASSED · 27 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
BREAK
3 groovesCS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play When You're Gone on drums

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.

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
36/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-49 and silence through bars 50-73.

The beat

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.

    5                        6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |x-----------------------|------------------------|
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x---x-|
HH |----------------------o-|-----------------------o|
SD |------x-----------x-----|------x-----------x-----|
T2 |------------------------|--------------------x---|
BD |x---------x-x-----------|x---------x-x-----------|
HF |------------------------|x-----------------------|
When You're Gone -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro and the Break -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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