Bye Bye Bye · *NSYNC

105 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 3:59 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:59
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 69, 71 and 75-82, and 3 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 · 86 BPM
BYE BYE BYE · BAR 76
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 12, 24, 32, 33, 34, 46 and 2 more.

LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 86 BPM
BARS 32-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 13 sections: 63 keep time, 8 are fills, 9 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 68-82.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART H
PART C
PART W
PART X
BREAK 3
12 groovesFWCXH+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bye Bye Bye?

86 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 Bye Bye Bye hard to play on drums?

44 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 8 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Bye Bye Bye?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 12, 24, 32, 33, 34, 46 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED
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