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To Bid You Farewell · Opeth

EXERCISE 1 OF 65
Groove S -- Chorus
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0 / 65 PASSED · 38 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play To Bid You Farewell on drums

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.

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

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

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-28, ride through bars 29-36, hi-hat through bars 37-44, ride through bars 45-53 and silence through bars 54-60, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----r-------r---|
BD |x--------------x|
To Bid You Farewell -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- S, AC -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AL -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 27-46 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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