Been A Long Time · Black Label Society

48 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 1:55 of playing, on crash, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
48
LENGTH
1:55
DIFFICULTY
26/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 65% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-16 and 25-39 -- 64.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BEEN A LONG TIME · BARS 1-2
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 40.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

48 bars across 4 sections: 42 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-15.

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

Questions

What BPM is Been A Long Time?

100 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 Been A Long Time hard to play on drums?

26 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

48 bars, about 1:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Been A Long Time?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 40.

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