Goodbye · Slipknot

158 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 4:16 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 80, 82 and 88, and 7 more places -- 15.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
GOODBYE · BAR 99
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 51, 52, 53, 54, 57, 58 and 25 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 51-54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 57-58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 63-66 · LANDS ON BAR 67 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 69-71 · LANDS ON BAR 72 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

158 bars across 16 sections: 76 keep time, 32 are fills, 24 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-35.

PART G
PART S9
PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AA
OUTRO
14 groovesQAAGAAL+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Goodbye?

120 BPM, in 3/4, 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 hard to play on drums?

50 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

11 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 51, 52, 53, 54, 57, 58 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 158 BARS ANALYSED
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