50 Ways To Say Goodbye · Train

139 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-24, 43-48 and 50-57, and 1 more place -- 28.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
50 WAYS TO SAY GOODBYE · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 68, 76, 92, 103, 104, 108 and 6 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 92 · LANDS ON BAR 93
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 103-104 · LANDS ON BAR 105 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 10 sections: 101 keep time, 12 are fills, 9 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 44-67.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBDNUS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 50 Ways To Say Goodbye?

140 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 50 Ways To Say Goodbye hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 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 50 Ways To Say Goodbye?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 68, 76, 92, 103, 104, 108 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED
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