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You're Gonna Go Far, Kid · The Offspring

EXERCISE 1 OF 34
Groove F -- Part F
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CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesADFBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play You're Gonna Go Far, Kid on drums

92 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 2:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
67/100

hi-hat through bars 1-20, snare through bars 21-29, hi-hat through bars 30-49, snare through bars 50-58, hi-hat through bars 59-62 and snare through bars 63-66, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25-26 and 50-52, and 7 more places -- 29.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |g-x-g-x-g-x-g-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x----x--x---x---|
You're Gonna Go Far, Kid -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 12, 20, 28, 41, 49, 58 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- F -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-13 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 11-53 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 23-66 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 63-84 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is You're Gonna Go Far, Kid?

126 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 You're Gonna Go Far, Kid hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 You're Gonna Go Far, Kid?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 12, 20, 28, 41, 49, 58 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED