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When You're Gone drums: tempo, difficulty and parts
When You're Gone by The Cranberries. is 97 BPM and runs 4:31: 73 bars and 1,399 notes played on the ride, kick, snare, crash, hi-hat, tom 1, floor tom and tom 2.
The drum part is rated Medium — comfortable once the groove is steady, and the fills are where it asks more.
It has 10 fills, its longest section is the Verse 1 (0:59) and the hi-hat opens as well as closes.
Song map
- Doo-bee-da 1
- Verse 1
- Chorus 1
- Doo-Bee-Da 2
- Verse 2
- Chorus 2
- Final Doo-Bee-Da
- Synth Solo
- Fade Out
How to play When You're Gone on drums
- Plug in your electronic drum kit over USB — or play on the keyboard.
- Press play. The notes of When You're Gone come down in time with the recording. Play it in Beatfall or read it as drum notation.
- Slow it down. Take the Fill into Fade Out at 0.5× or 0.75× with a click and a count-in, then bring it up to 97 BPM.
- Check every hit — on time, early or late — before you record your When You're Gone drum cover.
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