Say Goodnight · Bullet For My Valentine

125 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 4:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-30, 33-39 and 57-62, and 1 more place -- 21.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 114 BPM
SAY GOODNIGHT · BARS 25-26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 20, 22, 31 and 17 more.

LOOP · 114 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 14 sections: 61 keep time, 25 are fills, 19 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 90-96.

PART C
CHORUS
PART M
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART T
PART W
PART T
9 groovesIWCMT+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Say Goodnight?

114 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 Say Goodnight hard to play on drums?

53 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?

125 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 11 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 Say Goodnight?

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 20, 22, 31 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED
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