One Last Goodbye · Anathema

187 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 100 BPM, 5:47 of playing on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

ProgressiveMetal90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
187
LENGTH
5:47
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 20 and 22, and 57 more places -- 35.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
ONE LAST GOODBYE · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 5 times: bars 56, 112, 120, 138 and 152.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

187 bars across 5 sections: 74 keep time, 5 are fills, 89 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 182-187.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
4 groovesGS1EHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is One Last Goodbye?

100 BPM, in 3/4, 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 One Last Goodbye hard to play on drums?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

187 bars, about 5:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 One Last Goodbye?

1 fill to learn, played 5 times: bars 56, 112, 120, 138 and 152.

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