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Goodbye · Circa Waves

Goodbye · Circa Waves
EXERCISE 31 OF 46
Join Part P to Chorus 3 (bars 102-104)
104 / 143 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P, CHORUS 3
COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART S8
PART P
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesHDLS8C+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Goodbye on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-9, toms through bars 10-31, hi-hat through bars 32-33, toms through bars 34-35, hi-hat through bars 36-47 and toms through bars 48-71, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- H, C -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 27-78 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 52-72 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 84-104 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 102-120 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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