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1985 · Bowling For Soup

EXERCISE 16 OF 20
Groove H
91 / 97 BARS COVERED
0 / 20 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 1985 on drums

97 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:13 of playing, 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
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
50/100

snare through bars 2-10, hi-hat through bars 11-25, snare through bars 26-34, hi-hat through bars 35-36, snare through bars 37-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-57, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    2                3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x--x----x-xx|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|x-x-----x-x-----|
1985 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 7-41 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 48-75 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED