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Changes · David Bowie

EXERCISE 3 OF 14
Run B1 · Chorus (bars 5-9)
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0 / 14 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART S3
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBS3S5S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Changes on drums

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

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
38/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-10, silence through bars 11-24, hi-hat through bars 25-36, kick and crashes through bars 37-39 and hi-hat through bars 40-44, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Changes -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- B, C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 5-44 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 5 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED