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Farewell · Sentenced

EXERCISE 10 OF 22
Groove G -- Part G (a two-bar phrase)
84 / 131 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART D
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART G
PART S9
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBDGS9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Farewell on drums

131 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
54/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-82, silence through bars 83-97, hi-hat through bars 98-129 and toms through bars 130-131.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 32, and 9 more places -- 37.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x--x|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Farewell -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 80 and 81.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 22-32 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 28-77 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Farewell?

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 Farewell 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Farewell?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 80 and 81.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED