1985 · Bo Burnham

86 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 2:12 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
2:12
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-25, 43-48 and 65-70, and 1 more place -- 42.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 156 BPM
1985 · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 26, 84, 85 and 86.

LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 156 BPM
BARS 84-86 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars across 13 sections: 66 keep time, 5 are fills and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 28-40.

PART C
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
BREAK 3
PART J
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
9 groovesGFCS8J+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 1985?

156 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 1985 hard to play on drums?

50 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 2:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 1985?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 26, 84, 85 and 86.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED
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