Comes A Time · Neil Young

119 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:59 of it without a break -- on hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.

RockCountry / Folk150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 93% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-21, 23-30 and 32-34, and 6 more places -- 93.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 160 BPM
COMES A TIME · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 2 sections: 118 keep time and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-119.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Comes A Time?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Comes A Time hard to play on drums?

40 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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