1985 · Bowling For Soup

97 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:13 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 71% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-10, 19-39 and 49-56, and 3 more places -- 70.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
1985 · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 40, 48 and 96.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 96 · LANDS ON BAR 97
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 9 sections: 84 keep time, 3 are fills, 2 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-39.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART G
OUTRO
5 groovesBDGS1S8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 1985?

120 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 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 30 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?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 40, 48 and 96.

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