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A Bid Farewell (Proper Version) · Killswitch Engage

EXERCISE 9 OF 57
Join Part B to Part E (bars 7-9)
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0 / 57 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART E
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Bid Farewell (Proper Version) on drums

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.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
54/100

toms through bars 1-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-17, snare through bars 18-24, toms through bars 25-31, hi-hat through bars 32-37 and snare through bars 38-43, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---|
BD |xxxx-x-x----|
A Bid Farewell (Proper Version) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I, F -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-25 -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 25-43 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Bars 83-120 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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