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Goodbye Stranger · Supertramp

EXERCISE 1 OF 37
Groove J -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 8
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Goodbye Stranger on drums

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.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
6:20
DIFFICULTY
70/100

silence through bars 1-14, hi-hat through bars 15-63, ride through bars 64-74, hi-hat through bars 75-121, ride through bars 122-140 and kick and crashes through bars 141-147, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    64
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-xxx-xxx-xxx-xx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Goodbye Stranger -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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, D -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through Part F -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 76-125 -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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