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It's A Goodbye · Aspen

EXERCISE 17 OF 30
Groove J -- Part J
37 / 73 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play It's A Goodbye on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-10, snare through bars 11-19, hi-hat through bars 20-57, silence through bars 58-63 and hi-hat through bars 64-73.

The beat

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.

    22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x---x---x-x-|
BD |x-----x---------|
It's A Goodbye -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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, B -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 26-45 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 50-58 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Break 2 and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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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