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Skies Most Wanted Goodbyes · We Are The End

Skies Most Wanted Goodbyes · We Are The End
EXERCISE 16 OF 46
Groove O -- Part O (a two-bar phrase)
62 / 88 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O
CHORUS
PART J
PART M
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDJMTO+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 7
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Skies Most Wanted Goodbyes on drums

88 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
51/100

snare through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-4, snare through bars 5-21, hi-hat through bars 22-33, snare through bars 34-53 and hi-hat through bars 54-71, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 13 more places -- 18.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-------x---|
Skies Most Wanted Goodbyes -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 15, 17, 19, 23, 27, 37 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- D, M -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-47 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part J and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part M and Part O -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part O and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 59-76 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Skies Most Wanted Goodbyes?

110 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 Skies Most Wanted Goodbyes hard to play on drums?

51 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Skies Most Wanted Goodbyes?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 15, 17, 19, 23, 27, 37 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED