Goodbye Stranger · Supertramp

185 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 6:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopRock90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
6:20
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 64-70, 72-73 and 122-124, and 8 more places -- 30.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 114 BPM
GOODBYE STRANGER · BAR 64
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 148 and 149.

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

185 bars across 14 sections: 143 keep time, 3 are fills, 6 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 151-185.

COUNT-IN
PART D
PART C
PART F
CHORUS
PART L
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesJDFCL+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Goodbye Stranger?

114 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 Stranger hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

185 bars, about 6:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Stranger?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 148 and 149.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 185 BARS ANALYSED
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