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50 Ways To Say Goodbye · Train

EXERCISE 1 OF 43
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 43 PASSED · 38 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 50 Ways To Say Goodbye on drums

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.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-23, hi-hat through bars 24-26, snare through bars 27-42, kick and crashes through bars 43-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-50, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
BD |x---x---x---x---|
HF |x-------x-------|
50 Ways To Say Goodbye -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- B, D -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 65-91 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 88-105 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 101-121 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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