1979 · Smashing Pumpkins

138 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 4:21 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 85% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 10 more places -- 84.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 127 BPM
1979 · BARS 22-23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 135, 136, 137 and 138.

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

138 bars across 2 sections: 132 keep time and 4 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-134.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesDAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 1979?

127 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 1979 hard to play on drums?

62 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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 1979?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 135, 136, 137 and 138.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED
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