Ashes To Ashes · David Bowie

134 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:28 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15, 40 and 51-65, and 3 more places -- 45.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
ASHES TO ASHES · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

134 bars across 12 sections: 120 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 106-134.

CHORUS
PART C
PART D
PART C
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART D
PART C
PART D
OUTRO 2
3 groovesADCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ashes To Ashes?

120 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 Ashes To Ashes hard to play on drums?

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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