A Thousand years · Christina Perri

77 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 70 BPM, 3:19 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
77
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-19, 22-23 and 26, and 1 more place -- 35.6% 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 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 28, 33, 36, 38, 40, 56 and 6 more.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

77 bars across 7 sections: 50 keep time, 13 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-19.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
PART D
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBLCED+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 thirty-second 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?

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 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?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 28, 33, 36, 38, 40, 56 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED
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