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Isugaku Never Say Goodbye · Stevie T, ZP Theart

Isugaku Never Say Goodbye · Stevie T, ZP Theart
EXERCISE 17 OF 51
2-bar fill at bar 35
107 / 164 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S6
CHORUS
PART S6
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART S15
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesEJMS15S8+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Isugaku Never Say Goodbye on drums

164 bars at 182 BPM -- fast, and 3:36 of it without a break -- on crash, 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
182 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
57/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-14, snare through bars 15-18, hi-hat through bars 19-28 and snare through bars 29-36, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-14, 19-25 and 27-30, and 8 more places -- 49.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Isugaku Never Say Goodbye -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 7, 8, 15, 16, 18, 26 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- E -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part S4 and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 35-138 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 50-75 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 73-115 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 113-142 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Isugaku Never Say Goodbye?

182 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Isugaku Never Say Goodbye 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Isugaku Never Say Goodbye?

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 7, 8, 15, 16, 18, 26 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED