The Day You Said Goodnight V2 · Hale

79 bars, 4:43, at 67 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
67 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
4:43
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-17, 19-20 and 23-24, and 6 more places -- 40% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 67 BPM
THE DAY YOU SAID GOODNIGHT V2 · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 18, 25, 32, 36, 44, 51 and 5 more.

LOOP · 67 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 67 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 67 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 67 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

79 bars across 8 sections: 50 keep time, 11 are fills, 3 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-8.

PART C
PART F
CHORUS
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGS7CFP+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Day You Said Goodnight V2?

67 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is The Day You Said Goodnight V2 hard to play on drums?

54 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 4:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 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 The Day You Said Goodnight V2?

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 18, 25, 32, 36, 44, 51 and 5 more.

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