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1985 · Bo Burnham

1985 · Bo Burnham
EXERCISE 1 OF 26
Groove G -- Chorus
0 / 86 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 31 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 1985 on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
2:12
DIFFICULTY
50/100

snare through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-49, silence through bars 50-57, snare through bars 58-61, silence through bars 62-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-86.

The beat

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.

    20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x---x-x-------|
1985 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- G -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 15-40 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 39-50 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Bars 57-70 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
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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