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Say Goodnight · Bullet For My Valentine

EXERCISE 28 OF 56
Join Part M to Part O (bars 48-50)
95 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M, PART O
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 8
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Say Goodnight on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-6, kick and crashes through bars 7-8, ride through bars 9-24, hi-hat through bars 25-40, snare through bars 41-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-72, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    25               26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-----x---------|x-x---x---x---x-|
Say Goodnight -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- I, T -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Break and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 46-81 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part M and Part T -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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