Goodbye Kiss · Kasabian

123 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 4:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 84% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-5, 7-9 and 11-15, and 14 more places -- 83.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 123 BPM
GOODBYE KISS · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 16, 26, 38, 56, 62, 72 and 1 more.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars: 113 keep time, 7 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 85-122.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Goodbye Kiss?

123 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Goodbye Kiss hard to play on drums?

58 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?

123 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Goodbye Kiss?

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 16, 26, 38, 56, 62, 72 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
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