20th Century Boy · T. Rex

101 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Rock120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15, 23 and 42-57, and 3 more places -- 46.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 135 BPM
20TH CENTURY BOY · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 6 sections: 87 keep time and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-38.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDCS1BFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 20th Century Boy?

135 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 20th Century Boy hard to play on drums?

60 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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