Goodbye · Toe

182 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 5:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Progressive120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
182
LENGTH
5:17
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-19 and 21-35 -- 17.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 138 BPM
GOODBYE · BARS 5-6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 46, 48, 52, 54, 56, 58 and 48 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

182 bars across 20 sections: 102 keep time, 54 are fills, 2 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-37.

PART B
CHORUS
PART AX
CHORUS 3
PART CB
17 groovesMBAXCBA+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Goodbye?

138 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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?

76 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?

182 bars, about 5:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 21 sittings, about 25 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?

22 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 46, 48, 52, 54, 56, 58 and 48 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 182 BARS ANALYSED
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