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Steve Bye-Bye · 1inamillion

Steve Bye-Bye · 1inamillion
EXERCISE 16 OF 68
Fill at bar 37 (a small one)
51 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 68 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART Q
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 2
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Steve Bye-Bye on drums

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.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
74/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-12, toms through bars 13-17, snare through bars 18-21, ride through bars 22-24 and hi-hat through bars 25-44, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x--------x--------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x--x-----x--------x-----x-----------------|
Steve Bye-Bye -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part M -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part Q -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and Part Q -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 12 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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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