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Goodbye · Slipknot

EXERCISE 17 OF 53
Groove P
74 / 158 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Goodbye on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-40, silence through bars 41-50, toms through bars 51-54, kick and crashes through bars 55-62 and toms through bars 63-66, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    99
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x---x---x---|
SD |x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxx|
Goodbye -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- AA, H -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 10-36 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 35-55 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part AA -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part AA and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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