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EXERCISE 6 OF 87
Groove AX -- Part AX (a two-bar phrase)
44 / 182 BARS COVERED
0 / 87 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AX
PART B
CHORUS
PART AX
CHORUS 3
PART CB
17 groovesMBAXCBA+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 2
JOIN · 14
LINK · 7
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Goodbye on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
182
LENGTH
5:17
DIFFICULTY
76/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-59, toms through bars 60-62, ride through bars 63-64, hi-hat through bars 65-79 and toms through bars 80-94, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5                                                6
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
HH |------x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----o-----x-----x-----|
SD |r-----------r-----------r-----------r-----------|r-----------r-----------r-----------r-----------|
BD |x-----------------------------------------x-----|------x-----x-----------------x-----------------|
Goodbye -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AX -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 43-55 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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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