38 Years Old · Tragically Hip

100 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
27/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-24, 37-40 and 45-47, and 2 more places -- 45% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 100 BPM
38 YEARS OLD · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 9 sections: 92 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-24.

CHORUS
PART B
PART D
PART B
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesABDCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 38 Years Old?

100 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 38 Years Old hard to play on drums?

27 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 5 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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