Goodbye · Circa Waves

143 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:11 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32-33, 36-39 and 42-46, and 8 more places -- 27% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 180 BPM
GOODBYE · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 29, 41, 67, 71, 79, 103 and 6 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 71 · LANDS ON BAR 72
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 103 · LANDS ON BAR 104

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

143 bars across 15 sections: 90 keep time, 12 are fills, 7 are stops and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-26.

COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART S8
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesHDLS8C+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Goodbye?

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

Is Goodbye hard to play on drums?

48 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 29, 41, 67, 71, 79, 103 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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