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Last Goodbye · Jeff Buckley

EXERCISE 9 OF 37
Groove G
67 / 96 BARS COVERED
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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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Last Goodbye on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
4:25
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-9, ride through bars 10-13, hi-hat through bars 14-19, ride through bars 20-21, hi-hat through bars 22-29 and ride through bars 30-33, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--------xx-----|
Last Goodbye -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- D, E -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Break and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 7 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Bars 51-68 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 66-87 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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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