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1985 · Haken

EXERCISE 1 OF 65
Groove Y -- Part Y
0 / 227 BARS COVERED
0 / 65 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Y
PART S2
PART Y
PART Y
PART AR
PART AZ
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesS15YBGAZS2+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 1985 on drums

227 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 9:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
227
LENGTH
9:05
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-12, ride through bars 13-16, snare through bars 17-27, kick and crashes through bars 28-29 and silence through bars 30-40, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-51, 53-55 and 77-79, and 1 more place -- 8.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    49
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a7e+a
CC |x-x-------------------------|
RD |----x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x---|
BD |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

13 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 45 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- Y, AZ -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AR -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 4-29 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part W and Part Y -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part W and Part Y -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part Y and Part AE -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part AE and Part AJ -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is 1985?

142 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?

55 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

227 bars, about 9:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 1985?

13 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 45 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 227 BARS ANALYSED