Changes · David Bowie

97 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 3:11 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.

PopRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-9, 25-29 and 31-33, and 7 more places -- 57.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 114 BPM
CHANGES · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 36, 70, 80, 91 and 95.

LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 6 sections: 44 keep time, 5 are fills, 13 are stops and 33 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-34.

CHORUS
PART S3
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBS3S5S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Changes?

114 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 Changes hard to play on drums?

38 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Changes?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 36, 70, 80, 91 and 95.

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