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Song To Say Goodbye · Harakiri For The Sky

EXERCISE 15 OF 65
Join Chorus to Part S5 (bars 47-49)
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0 / 65 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART S5
COUNT-IN
PART E
CHORUS
PART S5
PART E
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART U
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesHMUEP+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Song To Say Goodbye on drums

197 bars of 4/4 at 154 BPM, about 5:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
154 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
197
LENGTH
5:07
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-16, toms through bars 17-30, silence through bars 31-32, snare through bars 33-49, silence through bars 50-52 and toms through bars 53-68, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 125-131, 133-139 and 149-164 -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    149
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Song To Say Goodbye -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 40, 54, 55, 56, 63, 64 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- U, M -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 29-48 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 47-65 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part E and Part M -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 81-182 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Song To Say Goodbye?

154 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 Song To Say Goodbye hard to play on drums?

58 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

197 bars, about 5:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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 Song To Say Goodbye?

14 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 40, 54, 55, 56, 63, 64 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 197 BARS ANALYSED