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BYE BYE BYE · *NSYNC

EXERCISE 31 OF 33
Hold Groove L for 8 bars -- Outro 2 (bars 58-65)
71 / 71 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
VERSE
PART K
CHORUS
PART Q
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDLKQS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play BYE BYE BYE on drums

71 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 3:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-55, silence through bars 56-57 and hi-hat through bars 58-71.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 10-12 and 14-16, and 10 more places -- 30.3% 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
HH |xxxxxxoxxxxxxxxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---xx--------|
BYE BYE BYE -- 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 20, 28, 29, 30, 33, 41 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- D, K -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through the Verse -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Verse and Part K -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part K and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is BYE BYE BYE?

87 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?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 20, 28, 29, 30, 33, 41 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 71 BARS ANALYSED