Change The Future · B'Z

95 bars of 4/4 at a walking 99 BPM, 3:48 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

Rock90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
99 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 87% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4-26 and 29-35, and 5 more places -- 87.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 99 BPM
CHANGE THE FUTURE · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

95 bars across 4 sections: 93 keep time and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-79.

VERSE
VERSE 2
3 groovesBS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Change The Future?

99 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 Change The Future hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 4 sittings, about 18 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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