Light Years · Pearl Jam

75 bars of 4/4 at a walking 103 BPM, 2:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-16, 18-20 and 22-23, and 1 more place -- 42.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 103 BPM
LIGHT YEARS · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 42 and 73.

LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

75 bars across 5 sections: 66 keep time and 2 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-24.

CHORUS
PART E
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAEGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Light Years?

103 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 Light Years hard to play on drums?

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Light Years?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 42 and 73.

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