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Comes A Time · Neil Young

EXERCISE 1 OF 6
Groove B -- Outro
0 / 119 BARS COVERED
0 / 6 PASSED · 110 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Comes A Time on drums

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

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
40/100

hi-hat through bars 2-119.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Comes A Time -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 5 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 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED