Steve Bye-Bye · 1inamillion

125 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-8, 10-12 and 18-19, and 5 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.

LOOP · 125 BPM
STEVE BYE-BYE · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 20 and 18 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 13-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 15 sections: 56 keep time, 24 are fills, 23 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 107-113.

CHORUS
PART M
PART Q
PART W
PART AD
PART AJ
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesBADAJMW+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Steve Bye-Bye?

125 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Steve Bye-Bye hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 20 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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.

How many fills are in Steve Bye-Bye?

14 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 20 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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