Five Years · David Bowie

122 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 84 BPM, 4:21 of playing on hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockPopUnder 90 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 99% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-122 -- 99.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 84 BPM
FIVE YEARS · BAR 3
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars: 122 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-122.

OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Five Years?

84 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Five Years 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course takes it in a single sitting of 3 exercises.

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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