ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 25 Years on drums

204 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 6:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 120 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 204
LENGTH: 6:48
DIFFICULTY: 71/100

ride through bars 1-16, toms through bars 17-36, snare through bars 37-44, hi-hat through bars 45-49, ride through bars 50-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-56, and 27 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 152-159, 162-169 and 174-177, and 2 more places -- 21.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    152                                              153
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------x-----------|------------------------------------------------|
RD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------------------------x-----------|------x-----------------------x-----------------|

25 Years -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28 and 28 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- AN -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
Through Part A and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
Through Part F and Part M -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Bars 14-49 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
and 9 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is 25 Years?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 25 Years hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

204 bars, about 6:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 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 25 Years?

17 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 204 BARS ANALYSED