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One Last Goodbye · Anathema

EXERCISE 9 OF 14
Join Chorus to Part H (bars 128-130)
154 / 187 BARS COVERED
0 / 14 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART H
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART H
OUTRO
4 groovesGS1EHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play One Last Goodbye on drums

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.

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
187
LENGTH
5:47
DIFFICULTY
37/100

silence through bars 1-16 and ride through bars 17-187.

The beat

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.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
RD |x---x---x---|
SD |x-----------|
One Last Goodbye -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- G, H -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 128-187 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 187 BARS ANALYSED