GOODBYE YESTERDAY · Elevation Rhythm

180 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
180
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-24, 85 and 87, and 4 more places -- 19.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
GOODBYE YESTERDAY · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 25, 29, 33, 41, 73, 74 and 25 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 73-74 · LANDS ON BAR 75 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 89-91 · LANDS ON BAR 92 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 98-99 · LANDS ON BAR 100 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

180 bars across 18 sections: 122 keep time, 31 are fills, 6 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-24.

CHORUS
PART D
PART H
PART P
PART AF
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesBAFPAVD+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is GOODBYE YESTERDAY?

150 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 YESTERDAY hard to play on drums?

57 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

180 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in GOODBYE YESTERDAY?

11 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 25, 29, 33, 41, 73, 74 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 180 BARS ANALYSED
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