Goodbye Angels · Red Hot Chili Peppers

189 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 4:24 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePop150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
189
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-55 and 145-151 -- 24.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 172 BPM
GOODBYE ANGELS · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 56, 60, 68, 104, 108, 116 and 5 more.

LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 104 · LANDS ON BAR 105
LOOP · 172 BPM
BARS 159-160 · LANDS ON BAR 161 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

189 bars across 10 sections: 124 keep time, 11 are fills, 8 are stops and 35 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-55.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDBSS1I+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Goodbye Angels?

172 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Goodbye Angels hard to play on drums?

60 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

189 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 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 Goodbye Angels?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 56, 60, 68, 104, 108, 116 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 189 BARS ANALYSED
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