The Big Goodbye · Ajr

105 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 4:34 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
30/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-18 and 40-42, and 3 more places -- 36.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 92 BPM
THE BIG GOODBYE · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 13 sections: 69 keep time and 34 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 60-74.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART C
BREAK 4
OUTRO
11 groovesBS10CED+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Big Goodbye?

92 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 The Big Goodbye hard to play on drums?

30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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