A Bid Farewell (Proper Version) · Killswitch Engage

152 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 4:30 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-14, 16-17 and 19-20, and 9 more places -- 14.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
A BID FAREWELL (PROPER VERSION) · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 12, 51, 65, 83, 99, 103 and 5 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 83 · LANDS ON BAR 84

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

152 bars across 14 sections: 84 keep time, 11 are fills, 40 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-23.

PART B
PART E
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART W
PART Z
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesIEWAEB+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Bid Farewell (Proper Version)?

120 BPM, in 3/4, 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 A Bid Farewell (Proper Version) hard to play on drums?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 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 A Bid Farewell (Proper Version)?

9 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 12, 51, 65, 83, 99, 103 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED
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