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Goodbye Angels · Red Hot Chili Peppers

EXERCISE 1 OF 43
Groove B -- Part B
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0 / 43 PASSED · 38 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART B
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDBSS1I+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Goodbye Angels on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
189
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-24, toms through bars 25-56, hi-hat through bars 57-137, silence through bars 138-144, toms through bars 145-153 and silence through bars 154-160, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    41
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
SD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
FT |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
BD |x-----------x-----------|
HF |x-----------x-----------|
Goodbye Angels -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 57-108 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 135-161 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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