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Goodbye Forever · Alkaline Trio

EXERCISE 22 OF 48
Groove S -- Part S
95 / 129 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART S
CHORUS
PART S
PART V
OUTRO
5 groovesBVAESS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Goodbye Forever on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
2:43
DIFFICULTY
62/100

hi-hat through bars 3-28, snare through bars 29-30, hi-hat through bars 31-46, snare through bars 47-48, hi-hat through bars 49-50 and snare through bars 51-64, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Goodbye Forever -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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, E -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 10 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part S and Part V -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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