It's A Goodbye · Aspen

73 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ElectronicUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-28 and 38-44 -- 23.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 80 BPM
IT'S A GOODBYE · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 21, 37 and 73.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 73
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 10 sections: 46 keep time, 3 are fills and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-20.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART M
BREAK
OUTRO
9 groovesEBGRS1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is It's A Goodbye?

80 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 It's A Goodbye hard to play on drums?

56 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 It's A Goodbye?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 21, 37 and 73.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED
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