1984 · Anakreenskyrider

109 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 52% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-22, 28 and 32-42, and 5 more places -- 52.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 160 BPM
1984 · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 24, 54 and 82.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 5 sections: 84 keep time, 3 are fills and 17 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-45.

PART A
CHORUS
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCLJAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 1984?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is 1984 hard to play on drums?

48 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?

109 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 9 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 1984?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 24, 54 and 82.

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