Hazy Shade Of Winter · The Bangles

83 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 2:31 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
2:31
DIFFICULTY
14/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 84% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-14, 17 and 19-28, and 7 more places -- 84% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 132 BPM
HAZY SHADE OF WINTER · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 46 and 67.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

83 bars across 11 sections: 62 keep time, 2 are fills, 9 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 69-83.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART E
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
6 groovesAES10S2S4+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hazy Shade Of Winter?

132 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 Hazy Shade Of Winter hard to play on drums?

14 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how many limbs land on the same note. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 2:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 3 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Hazy Shade Of Winter?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 46 and 67.

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