A Thousand Years · Christina Perri

78 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 70 BPM, 3:21 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopUnder 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-16, 22 and 24, and 10 more places -- 40.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 70 BPM
A THOUSAND YEARS · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 21, 29, 37, 39, 45, 61 and 1 more.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

78 bars across 7 sections: 45 keep time, 7 are fills, 10 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-16.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART A
BREAK
OUTRO
6 groovesBFDAS6+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Thousand Years?

70 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Thousand Years hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how much of it falls off the beat the part that decides it. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Years?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 21, 29, 37, 39, 45, 61 and 1 more.

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