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Long Goodbyes · Camel

EXERCISE 20 OF 27
Fill at bar 86 (a small one)
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Long Goodbyes on drums

95 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 2:41 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
2:41
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-28, hi-hat through bars 29-45, silence through bars 46-58 and hi-hat through bars 59-95.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-31, 33-34 and 37-39, and 11 more places -- 57.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    30
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------x-----x-----------------x-----------|
Long Goodbyes -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 28, 32, 35, 36, 40, 43 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- C -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 43-79 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Long Goodbyes?

96 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Long Goodbyes hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 2:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 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 Long Goodbyes?

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 28, 32, 35, 36, 40, 43 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED