← SONGS

1973 · James Blunt

1973 · James Blunt
EXERCISE 6 OF 41
Join Chorus to Part F (bars 38-40)
83 / 139 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART F
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 1973 on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-82, snare through bars 83-91, silence through bars 92-98 and hi-hat through bars 99-139.

The beat

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.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |X-g-x-g-X-g-x-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---------|
1973 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- C, F -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 36-70 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 67-83 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 85-91 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part P -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Bars 99-123 -- 9 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  8. Bars 119-133 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
START THE COURSE ↑

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