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Goodbye My Love · Lovehatehero

Goodbye My Love · Lovehatehero
EXERCISE 3 OF 61
Groove B -- Part B
75 / 188 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT
BREAK
BREAK 3
PART B
PART B
CHORUS
PART D
PART R
CHORUS 4
17 groovesJHRBD+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 16
LINK · 5
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Goodbye My Love on drums

188 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 3:25 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
188
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
55/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-20, toms through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-28, snare through bars 29-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-52, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-43, 85-91 and 129-135, and 1 more place -- 26.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    38
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Goodbye My Love -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 8, 84, 128, 139, 140 and 188.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- J, H -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 8-17 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 23-29 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Bars 46-57 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Goodbye My Love?

220 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 My Love hard to play on drums?

55 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?

188 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 My Love?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 8, 84, 128, 139, 140 and 188.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 188 BARS ANALYSED