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1979 · Smashing Pumpkins

EXERCISE 3 OF 11
Groove C
120 / 138 BARS COVERED
0 / 11 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, OUTRO 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesDAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 1979 on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
62/100

hi-hat through bars 1-136 and snare through bars 137-138.

The beat

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.

    22               23
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x-x-----x-x-|x-X-x-X-x-x-X-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x-----|x-------x-x---x-|
1979 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 9 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 -- D -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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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