Song To Say Goodbye · Placebo

141 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:25 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieElectronic150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-24 and 49-72 -- 34.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 165 BPM
SONG TO SAY GOODBYE · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

141 bars across 6 sections: 131 keep time, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 90-140.

PART A
PART B
CHORUS
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Song To Say Goodbye?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Song To Say Goodbye hard to play on drums?

45 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 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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