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The Day You Said Goodnight V2 · Hale

EXERCISE 1 OF 34
Groove G -- Chorus
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0 / 34 PASSED · 28 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
PART C
PART F
CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGS7CFP+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Day You Said Goodnight V2 on drums

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.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
67 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
4:43
DIFFICULTY
54/100

hi-hat through bars 2-10, ride through bars 11-14, hi-hat through bars 15-20, ride through bars 21-22, hi-hat through bars 23-30 and ride through bars 31-32, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x---x-----|
The Day You Said Goodnight V2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- G -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F, C -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Bars 2-15 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 51-60 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED