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GOODBYE YESTERDAY · Elevation Rhythm

EXERCISE 8 OF 69
Run D1 · Part D (bars 26-41)
73 / 180 BARS COVERED
0 / 69 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 14
LINK · 6
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play GOODBYE YESTERDAY on drums

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.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
180
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
57/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-25, ride through bars 26-41, toms through bars 42-55, hi-hat through bars 56-64, toms through bars 65-73 and kick and crashes through bars 74-79, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
BD |x---x---x---x---|
GOODBYE YESTERDAY -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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, AV -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part H and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part P -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 80-92 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part AA -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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