A Thousand Days · Entheos

125 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 4:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33, 35 and 37, and 12 more places -- 13.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 123 BPM
A THOUSAND DAYS · BAR 39
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 33 more.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BARS 8-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 13 sections: 55 keep time, 39 are fills, 3 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 69-75.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART H
PART M
CHORUS
PART AA
CHORUS 2
PART S11
OUTRO
11 groovesSAMAAS2+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Thousand Days?

123 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 A Thousand Days hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in A Thousand Days?

20 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED
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