1973 · James Blunt

139 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 4:31 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-29, 31-33 and 51-57, and 1 more place -- 28.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 123 BPM
1973 · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 82, 86, 103, 104, 105, 106 and 2 more.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 82 · LANDS ON BAR 83 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BARS 103-106 · LANDS ON BAR 107 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 114 · LANDS ON BAR 115
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 122 · LANDS ON BAR 123
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 14 sections: 95 keep time, 8 are fills, 4 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-38.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART F
PART S8
PART P
PART F
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCFPGS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 1973?

123 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 1973 hard to play on drums?

56 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 4:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 1973?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 82, 86, 103, 104, 105, 106 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED
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