Last Goodbye · Jeff Buckley

96 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 4:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
4:25
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-13, 21 and 31-33, and 7 more places -- 24.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 87 BPM
LAST GOODBYE · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 45, 53, 57, 67, 75, 76 and 4 more.

LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 9 sections: 66 keep time, 10 are fills, 4 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-40.

COUNT-IN
PART E
CHORUS
PART D
PART L
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesHEDS1L+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Last Goodbye?

87 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 Last Goodbye hard to play on drums?

60 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 4:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 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 Last Goodbye?

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 45, 53, 57, 67, 75, 76 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED
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