A Different Age · Current Joys

123 bars, 6:50, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, snare, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

PopUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
6:50
DIFFICULTY
28/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 93% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-114 -- 92.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 72 BPM
A DIFFERENT AGE · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 122 and 123.

LOOP · 72 BPM
BARS 122-123 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 2 sections: 120 keep time and 2 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-114.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Different Age?

72 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is A Different Age hard to play on drums?

28 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 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 6:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 2 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in A Different Age?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 122 and 123.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
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