To Bid You Farewell · Opeth

189 bars, 10:04, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
189
LENGTH
10:04
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 61-65, 67-69 and 71-73, and 9 more places -- 21.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 75 BPM
TO BID YOU FAREWELL · BAR 62
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 20, 27, 28, 32, 34, 52 and 12 more.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 82 · LANDS ON BAR 83 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

189 bars across 15 sections: 140 keep time, 18 are fills, 4 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 61-81.

PART C
CHORUS
PART W
PART Z
PART AC
OUTRO 2
12 groovesSACWCAL+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is To Bid You Farewell?

75 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 To Bid You Farewell hard to play on drums?

58 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

189 bars, about 10:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in To Bid You Farewell?

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 20, 27, 28, 32, 34, 52 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 189 BARS ANALYSED
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