Goodbye Forever · Alkaline Trio

129 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:43 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
2:43
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 18 more places -- 48.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 190 BPM
GOODBYE FOREVER · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 28, 29, 30, 32, 33, 34 and 25 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 28-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 32-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 6 sections: 76 keep time, 31 are fills, 16 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-27.

CHORUS
PART V
OUTRO
5 groovesBVAESS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Goodbye Forever?

190 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 Forever hard to play on drums?

62 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?

129 bars, about 2:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Goodbye Forever?

13 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 28, 29, 30, 32, 33, 34 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
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